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Chrome 83 will Block Insecure Downloads on HTTPS Pages
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<blockquote data-quote="silversurfer" data-source="post: 858461" data-attributes="member: 26718"><p>Google <a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2020/02/protecting-users-from-insecure.html" target="_blank">plans</a> to block all insecure downloads in coming versions of the company's Google Chrome browser. Insecure downloads, according to Google, are downloads that originate from HTTPS websites that are not served via HTTPS. The decision won't affect sites that are still accessed via HTTP.</p><p></p><p>The change is the next step in <a href="https://www.ghacks.net/2019/11/06/google-chrome-will-block-mixed-content-in-the-near-future/" target="_blank">Google's plan</a> to block "all insecure subresources on secure pages" which it announced last year. Back then, Google declared that mixed content, another term for insecure content on secure websites, "threatens the privacy and security of users" as attackers could modify the insecure content, e.g. by tampering with a mixed image of a stock chart to mislead investors" or injecting "a tracking cookie into a mixed resource load".</p><p></p><p></p><p>Read more below:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/07/google-chrome-will-block-all-insecure-downloads-in-the-near-future/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="silversurfer, post: 858461, member: 26718"] Google [URL='https://blog.chromium.org/2020/02/protecting-users-from-insecure.html']plans[/URL] to block all insecure downloads in coming versions of the company's Google Chrome browser. Insecure downloads, according to Google, are downloads that originate from HTTPS websites that are not served via HTTPS. The decision won't affect sites that are still accessed via HTTP. The change is the next step in [URL='https://www.ghacks.net/2019/11/06/google-chrome-will-block-mixed-content-in-the-near-future/']Google's plan[/URL] to block "all insecure subresources on secure pages" which it announced last year. Back then, Google declared that mixed content, another term for insecure content on secure websites, "threatens the privacy and security of users" as attackers could modify the insecure content, e.g. by tampering with a mixed image of a stock chart to mislead investors" or injecting "a tracking cookie into a mixed resource load". Read more below: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/07/google-chrome-will-block-all-insecure-downloads-in-the-near-future/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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