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Hey, want to hear something else a little tinfoil hat crazy and also 100% true? - Checking out on Amazon was always encrypted. - Browsing on Amazon was not en

Hey, want to hear something else a little tinfoil hat crazy and also 100% true? - Checking out on Amazon was always encrypted. - Browsing on Amazon was not encrypted until quite recently. Add To Cart wasn't encrypted. - High end network equipment includes support for monitoring your browsing on the guest wifi to send URLs from you browsing Amazon to price-compare or buy. See, for instance, Cisco Analytics for Retail.

sjs382 6y ago
> Browsing on Amazon was not encrypted until quite recently. Add To Cart wasn't encrypted. What do you mean by this? HTTPS has always been supported for browsing and adding to cart.
- schoen 6y ago
  I think this varied by country. I was working on some HTTPS advocacy targeted at web sites before it was so ubiquitous, and I remember Amazon in the U.S. not allowing you to browse items with HTTPS probably sometime around 2010 (I think they would send a redirect back to the HTTP site).
- hollander 6y ago
  Definitely not in the EU. It changed 5 or 8 years ago, but before that is was not encrypted.
- pc86 6y ago
  Even taking into account the comments below, you can still see the URLs and thus determine the products folks are browsing even with SSL.
  - zorked 6y ago
    No you can't. You can only see the domain during initial protocol setup.
    - spurgu 6y ago
      Unless you have NSA-level haxx to break SSL. Wonder who might have some knowledge on the topic..
- chrisseaton 6y ago
  > HTTPS has always been supported for browsing and adding to cart. HTTPS was only experimentally supported by one browser when Amazon launched so this is clearly not the case, is it?