Google Chrome Pushes For User Protection With 'Not secure' Label (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday February 8, 2018 @08:25AM from the up-next dept.

In an effort to force websites to better protect their users, the Chrome web browser will label all sites not encrypted traffic as "Not secure" in the web address bar, Google announced Thursday. From a report: Encrypted traffic allows users to access data on a website without allowing potential eavesdroppers to see anything the users visit. HTTPS also prevents meddlers from changing information in transit. During normal web browsing, Google currently displays a "Not secure" warning in the next to a site's URL if it forgoes HTTPS encryption and a user enters data. Now the browser will label all sites without HTTPS encryption this way.

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Re:Not going to help by Richard_at_work · 2018-02-08 08:52 · Score: 0, Troll

They might not care about https specifically, but when your site traffic drops off and users start to complain about the undue weight of ads or how your page slows their browser to a crawl, you might start investigating and seeing how third parties are injecting ads and crypto mining scripts into your page...
Every site has something to lose.