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So this article is claiming that 80% of people clicking on Facebook ads have chosen to use https? Seems way too high to me.

by learc83 14y ago

ceejayoz 14y ago
Facebook has been strongly recommending people switch this on (a one-step process, prompted in your news feed) for over a year now. http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/02/https-secure-browsing-home-page/ http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/02/https-secure-browsi... I'd be surprised if the number was as low as 80%.
- devindotcom 14y ago
  I have to say, I think you are VASTLY overestimating the average facebook user.
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- alainbryden 14y ago
  I've never received that prompt. If you read further down in that misleading article you linked to, you would see that they don't show the prompt to all their users: > we're displaying this prompt when a user who has not enabled secure browsing (through the account settings option) manually changes their browser's address bar to https:// https://, which does not fully protect their Facebook traffic. I just had to go hunting through privacy and security settings for 5 minutes to figure out how to enable HTTPS. So no, I would guess fewer than 0.1% of Facebook users have this enabled.
  - ceejayoz 14y ago
    It's a year-old article. My company builds (among other things) Facebook apps and we definitely receive this alert these days on test accounts that are purely accessing via HTTP.
- joshlegs 14y ago
  I tend to agree with the parent of this comment. Most people on facebook are clueless when it comes to even simple privacy fixes, and even the technorati have trouble tweaking things properly. I thought the same thing as parent. It seems the poster is suggesting that tons of people are using https, and I can almost certainly say that just about everyone I know does not use that feature. I believe the poster of that facebook post (Limited Run) said they would post their analytics details or something like that. I'd kind of like to see them, myself.

So this article is claiming that 80% of people clicking on Facebook ads have chosen to use https? Seems way too high to me.

by learc83 14y ago

So this article is claiming that 80% of people clicking on Facebook ads have chosen to use https? Seems way too high to me.

ceejayoz 14y ago

Facebook has been strongly recommending people switch this on (a one-step process, prompted in your news feed) for over a year now. http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/02/https-secure-browsing-home-page/ http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/02/https-secure-browsi... I'd be surprised if the number was as low as 80%.

devindotcom 14y ago
I have to say, I think you are VASTLY overestimating the average facebook user.
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alainbryden 14y ago
I've never received that prompt. If you read further down in that misleading article you linked to, you would see that they don't show the prompt to all their users: > we're displaying this prompt when a user who has not enabled secure browsing (through the account settings option) manually changes their browser's address bar to https:// https://, which does not fully protect their Facebook traffic. I just had to go hunting through privacy and security settings for 5 minutes to figure out how to enable HTTPS. So no, I would guess fewer than 0.1% of Facebook users have this enabled.
- ceejayoz 14y ago
  It's a year-old article. My company builds (among other things) Facebook apps and we definitely receive this alert these days on test accounts that are purely accessing via HTTP.
joshlegs 14y ago
I tend to agree with the parent of this comment. Most people on facebook are clueless when it comes to even simple privacy fixes, and even the technorati have trouble tweaking things properly. I thought the same thing as parent. It seems the poster is suggesting that tons of people are using https, and I can almost certainly say that just about everyone I know does not use that feature. I believe the poster of that facebook post (Limited Run) said they would post their analytics details or something like that. I'd kind of like to see them, myself.