Google Out of Control - Google Wants Non Secure (HTTP) Sites To Have Warning

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Google Chrome is submitting a proposal to change the behavior around how browsers mark HTTPS sites as secure but HTTP sites as nothing.

They want HTTP sites to specifically carry a warning label that it is not secure. Kind of how when you go to an HTTPS site that is not secure, it warns you. They want something like that for sites that are not on HTTPS.

It is like placing a sign on a house, saying this house does not have an alarm system.

Google said:
We, the Chrome Security Team, propose that user agents (UAs) gradually change their UX to display non-secure origins as affirmatively non-secure. We intend to devise and begin deploying a transition plan for Chrome in 2015.
The goal of this proposal is to more clearly display to users that HTTP provides no data security.
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This has nothing to do with ranking, that is the Google HTTPS ranking signal - this is not SEO, this is just what users will see on HTTP sites.
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Sauce: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-non-https-proposal-19604.html

I guess some of us saw this one coming...
 


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Great point, Golan.

To counter slightly; in my opinion, it's corporations like these that have helped us out of recession.. Creating jobs & driving economic recovery throughout these dark times. And yet in spite of that they are focusing their energies towards OUR (the consumers) security whilst browsing online. God bless Google.
 
For those that have already switched to https, did rankings fluctuate much in a positive or negative way?
I know it s supposed to help, but apparently it has harmed rankings for some people.
 
qualo said:
For those that have already switched to https, did rankings fluctuate much in a positive or negative way?
I know it s supposed to help, but apparently it has harmed rankings for some people.
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i rank a lot of direct sales sites and all of my keywords have an https for the top 3 100% of the time
 
dmnEPC said:
im not against https (actually the opposite).

Why would a thin site like Your Stories Delivered Daily have any use for https? Submission? Ok sure that makes sense.

So take the submissions out. How would a site that has no login, benefit from https?
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Because which pages you visit on a domain, as well as any data you send to that domain, should be private.

Because the integrity of the content is not assured over HTTP. The NSA injects malware into HTTP server pages that targetted people request.
 
I'm just playing capitalist devils advocate here but all I see is a new (picket fence)barrier to entry and a way for at least some fat to be trimmed from the marketplace if it impacts rank. If G Wants it G gets it, might as well come at it from the inside and get paid from it.

While getting a cert is a derp-worthy easy to do, a lot of places won't. Seems like this will automatically make ranking at least a bit easier for a while for those willing to just grab one.

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Would all HTTPS obfuscate any way of determining Google's market share, since it can't pass referring data cross-domain?
 
mattseh said:
Because which pages you visit on a domain, as well as any data you send to that domain, should be private.

Because the integrity of the content is not assured over HTTP. The NSA injects malware into HTTP server pages that targetted people request.
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HTTPS will do little to nothing to block the NSA. And just because a site adds https doesn't mean it will be done right. There are secure sites all over the web that still leak your data, giving people a false sense of security.


Besides I have nothing to hide so why should I care? It's just pedo's, terrorists, and criminals who will benefit from all this security
 
dmnEPC said:
HTTPS will do little to nothing to block the NSA. And just because a site adds https doesn't mean it will be done right. There are secure sites all over the web that still leak your data, giving people a false sense of security.


Besides I have nothing to hide so why should I care? It's just pedo's, terrorists, and criminals who will benefit from all this security
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Right.
Not all the pages need HTTPS, what sense of security you need visiting static pages when no form submit is involved? Since dumb cookie euro law all this shit about user security.
HTTPS is slowing web surfing both server side and client side adding useless overhead and making richer certificates sellers.
 
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