Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome
Considering that Google (search) still lists plenty of FTP results, many of which have been <i>extremely</i> useful to me, this seems like another move to bully the Internet into what Google wants it to be. Will it start removing those results, effectively censoring another huge chunk of the Internet? It&#x27;s already hard enough to find older&#x2F;more obscure information, and FTP sites are more likely to be in that category.<p>Also, I can&#x27;t be the only one who&#x27;s absolutely sick of hearing that bloody &quot;security&quot; argument again. Yes, everyone knows FTP is plaintext, and so is HTTP. But drivers, which I&#x27;d say are a significant part of FTP use, are almost always themselves signed anyway, and I don&#x27;t think malware is widely distributed via FTP either (I&#x27;m curious why FTPS&#x2F;SFTP doesn&#x27;t see to be indexed, or why they didn&#x27;t decide to add that to the browser instead --- or at least I&#x27;ve never come across a search result that links to one.)