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HTTPS is already almost everywhere. This addon is pretty much unneeded in 2020 not to mention it did very little anyway.
by npiit 6y ago
HTTPS is already almost everywhere. This addon is pretty much unneeded in 2020 not to mention it did very little anyway.
- flamtap 6y agoalmost
- IncRnd 6y agoOf course it's needed, regardless of the existing coverage from existing websites. HTTPS provides confidentiality but also integrity and may be used to provide authenticity.
- jobigoud 6y agoThe addon is entirely related to existing coverage of websites because all it does is replace http urls by https ones if they exists. It doesn't magically add https to sites that don't support it.
- npiit 6y agoAll those people who downvoted me don't understand neither HTTPS nor how this addon works. The addon is only at value when you request an HTTP url for a website that doesn't automatically redirect you to the HTTPS url. It's almost useless since the vast majority of websites automatically redirect you.
- pastage 6y agoI thought the extension sends you directly to the https version, that is similar to how HSTS works, and securitywise alot better that http redirects.
- pabs3 6y agoIt doesn't yet, but theoretically it could redirect http URLs to archive.org/archive.is, which have https.
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- IncRnd 6y agoOf course it doesn't magically add https. I never said it did. As you said it enforces use of https instead of http. That is what I said was necessary. The three reasons that is necessary were what I listed.
- speedgoose 6y agoI use it to block HTTP by default.
- everfree 6y agoYou'd be very surprised how many websites you visit in a day that still don't have HTTPS, if you stopped to check. Little academic sites, old tech blogs, those trackers when you click a link in an email list that you signed up for...
- jobigoud 6y agoIf a site doesn't support HTTPS the extension won't do anything.
- pabs3 6y agoIt has an option to block sites that don't do https (with options to permanently/temporarily allow them.
- npiit 6y agoI have some config (afaik found it on ghacks sometime ago) in Firefox that breaks the entire website if it has any HTTP url in it. I rarely see broken websites.