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Does HTTPS Everywhere actually work for you? It's utterly useless for me as far as I can tell. Try going to some site (say, example.net) in Chrome and watch it
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Does HTTPS Everywhere actually work for you? It's utterly useless for me as far as I can tell. Try going to some site (say, example.net) in Chrome and watch it just load HTTP.
- makeworld 6y agoHTTPS Everywhere only loads HTTPS on a predefined list of sites. I just use SmartHTTPS on Firefox now.
- notpiika 6y agoIIRC, you have to enable the "strict" mode, or something along those lines, in the settings before it rejects HTTP connections from being made. I had the same issue.
- mehrdadn 6y agoThanks, but then what do I do about HTTP-only sites? Why can't it default to HTTPS and then auto-fallback to HTTP when HTTPS connections fail for sites that aren't in the known-HTTPS list? It seems like a logical thing to do instead of just going straight to HTTP.
- tialaramex 6y agoThis only helps you at all against passive adversaries. An active adversary will just cheerfully block that HTTPS connection because you'll fall back to insecure silently.
- mehrdadn 6y agoI fully understand that and that's still clearly still better than going straight to HTTP, which it's already doing.