Towards HTTPS by default
blog.chromium.org
For the past several years, more than 90% of Chrome users' navigations have been to HTTPS sites, across all major platforms. Thankfully, th...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3301227

Chrome will be experimenting with defaulting to https:// if the site supports it, even when an http:// link is used and will warn about downloads from insecure sources for “high-risk files” (example given is an exe). They’re also planning on enabling it by default for Incognito Mode and “sites that Chrome knows you typically access over HTTPS”.

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have, and for quite some time when I was trying to set Https up.

    It’s really bad IMO to “decide what the user wants” even if this is both discussable and a very small step, it is a step towards that.