> As much as I herald the ongoing march toward mass HTTPS adoption, I'm not sure Google should be taking the credit. Are they taking credit? I read this as mor

> As much as I herald the ongoing march toward mass HTTPS adoption, I'm not sure Google should be taking the credit. Are they taking credit? I read this as more of a report on the state of HTTPS in 2016, not as Google taking credit for HTTPS adoption on the web. Though to be fair, Google absolutely has done a lot to promote the adoption of HTTPS. They're a platinum sponsor of Let's Encrypt, they [made HTTPS a (small) positive ranking signal][1] back in 2014, and they're even using Chrome to push HTTPS adoption by [making the security problems with HTTP more visible to users][2]. [1]: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-s... [2]: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/09/moving-towards-more-secure-web.html https://security.googleblog.com/2016/09/moving-towards-more-...