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”.

  • Spotlight7573@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    It does if you just type in something like wikipedia.org . This most recent change they’re working on is so that a link on a page to:

    http://wikipedia.org will get redirected to https://wikipedia.org if the site supports it.

    This will fix a bunch of old links that are still floating around on various sites, forums, etc and keep people on https, instead of doing the https -> http -> https redirect bouncing around that can happen now.

    • jacaw@lemmy.mlEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Ah, that’s a great feature. Hope this comes to Brave soon.

      • Synthead@lemmy.mlEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        I disagree. While in practice, this is often the same website, it is a different protocol and a different port. It just happens to use the same DNS address. You’re explicitly giving your browser a FQDN, and it is ignoring it and doing something else.

        I hope this feature can be disabled. Google has been ignoring the W3C and has shipped proprietary, insecure features in their chromium engine for a while now, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they made it permanent 🤷