10 Years of HTTPS Everywhere

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/10-years-https-everywhere

It’s been 10 years since the beta release of EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere web browser extension. It encrypts your communications with websites, making your browsing more secure. HTTPS has journeyed it’s way from an urgent recommendation to a main component of traffic of our everyday web experience. In 2018, we discussed the importance of HTTPS Everywhere and our ongoing effort to encrypt the web. We have come far and still have more work to do. This post gives a snapshot into the landscape of HTTPS Everywhere today.

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10 Years of HTTPS Everywhere

It’s been 10 years since the beta release of EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere web browser extension. It encrypts your communications with websites, making your browsing more secure. HTTPS has journeyed it’s way from an urgent recommendation to a main component of traffic of our everyday web experience. In...

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[SpiderWeb]

This and the Snowden revelations really accelerated encryption.

 

[Eggnog]

It's an extension everyone should be using, and should have been using already.

 

[FireHammer]

It is a super extension, for everyone beginner/expert, it does not require any knowledge(not much anyway)

 

[LDogg]

I feel like the extension has certainly helped with most sites being HTTPS as standard now, but I feel it's lost it's touch now on this. However I hear it's good for stopping MITM attacks.

Not an extension on my bucket list though.

~LDogg

 

[HarborFront]

Time to stop recommending HTTPS Everywhere?

 

[TairikuOkami]

I feel like the extension has certainly helped with most sites being HTTPS as standard now, but I feel it's lost it's touch now on this.

About a year ago, it used a whitelist, today it works on any webpage, so they did something right, but Smart HTTPS did it years ago.

Yandex uses Force HTTPS, so I do not need it. I also have HTTP blocked, so when I try to open it, it switches to HTTPS automatically.