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Two in three web pages served over the world's favourite web browser Chrome are now secured with HTTPS, Google says. The good news applies to Chrome on the desktop and signifies progress in the long-hoped-for decline of insecure cleartext browsing. Chrome security bods Adrienne Porter Felt and Emily Schechter say all …

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  1. Dr.Flay

    ... therfore other browsers must be HTTP only

    Are you reporting that SSL is not available outside the googleverse ?

    ...or can we assume that this statistic applies for all browsers that correctly support TLS.

    How about the fact that Firefox has extensions that Google do not allow, that add extra SSL robustness and multi-party validation, so HTTPS is possibly even safer than in Chrome.

    Google are simply taking credit for other people upgrading their sites.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Time to catch up, Register?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    How does Alphabet know this?

    Unless their browser reports what you do (and the sites you visit) back to the Chocolate Factory AI that is?

    I stopped using google as a search engine a couple of years ago. DuckduckGo does everything I need from it.

    Sadly far too many sites rely upon 'googleapis.com' otherwise my divorce from Google would be complete.

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  4. Drew 11

    So basically, Google gets to decide what happens on the Interwebs from here on in.

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    1. David Lawton
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      But if you ask everyday users, Google IS the internet.

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    2. kotaKat
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      They already have. Have an internal facing application with weak SSL? Nope. Can't access it in Chrome because weak DH keys. The excuse is "ask your webmaster to fix it" or "that shouldn't be done that way" not "here's how to bypass it".

      Or when they took backspace to go back away suddenly from us all and then say "we won't make it a flag or a setting, but download this bugged out extension instead" and marks all the legitimate complaints they have broken "for user safety" as wontfix.

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  5. William 3 Bronze badge

    Written by a Bot?

    Was it?

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  6. Gio Ciampa

    "Two in three web pages served over the world's favourite web browser Chrome"

    When did it become a server application...?

    Did you mean "viewed on" perchance?

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  7. Eddy Ito

    Why does the article talk about browsers and the graph show operating systems?

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