Google Chrome will actively direct you away from insecure websites

Date:
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 23:31:43 +0000

Description:
Google will offer a new HTTPS-Only Mode in Chrome in a future update to its browser.

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Google is currently working on a new feature for Chrome that will automatically direct users away from insecure sites still using HTTP in favor of sites that utilize HTTPS instead.

The search giant has long been a proponent of using HTTPS and all the way
back in 2018, it began marking all HTTP sites as not secure in its browser . Beginning with the release of Chrome 86 last year, Google also began warning users about insecure forms on HTTPS sites to prevent users from entering sensitive information such as their banking details. We've put together a
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Now though, the company is planning to add an HTTPS-Only Mode in an upcoming version of Chrome according to a new post on the Chromium Gerrit site. HTTPS-Only Mode

Once this feature is available in Chrome, a new toggle to Always use secure connections will be added to the browser's security settings under the Advanced heading. If this toggle is switched to on, Google will upgrade all navigations to HTTPS and warn you before loading sites that don't support it.

While this toggle will be disabled by default, Chrome already defaults to using HTTPS if you don't type out http:// or https:// when entering a website's URL in the browser's address bar. However, if a HTTPS version of a site isn't available, Chrome will show a warning page before reverting back
to HTTP.

Any sites that users allow to bypass HTTP-Only Mode will be saved by Google
so Chrome won't ask you again the next time you visit them.

As HTTPS-Only Mode is still in development, it likely won't arrive until the release of either Chrome version 93 or 94 with the former scheduled to
release in August and the latter slated to arrive in September. We've also feature the best business VPN

Via 9to5Google



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