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At the moment, yes, no nosslsearch VIP will do this. However we're getting rid of it soon and replacing it with one that enables SafeSearch, but still over HTTP

by agl 12y ago

At the moment, yes, no nosslsearch VIP will do this. However we're getting rid of it soon and replacing it with one that enables SafeSearch, but still over HTTPS: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186669?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186669?hl=en However, if you want an encrypted search option, https://encrypted.google.com/ https://encrypted.google.com/ is always encrypted and isn't affected by these methods.

timothya 12y ago
Some more information: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-update-to-safesearch-options-for.html http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-update-t...
simi_ 12y ago
Ha, you're the guy behind Pond (hi!). As a security researcher, how does it feel to work for a company that (reportedly) (pro)actively collaborates with the NSA? Are you ever worried that the company might not be as ethical as it seems to the average Googler? puts on tinfoil hat edit: Thank you for the downvote[s]! edit2: I just remembered a relevant example. Reading "How Google works", I clicked in many ways with their vision about smart creatives and how to run a company properly. However I then immediately realised that it's written by the same a-hole involved in the massive Google-Apple wage fixing scandal [0], and it made me question how much of what's in there is real. 0: http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-rejects-324-5m-wage-fixing-settlement-struck-by-apple-google-others/ http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-rejects-324-5m-wage-fixing-se...
- sarciszewski 12y ago
  You're welcome for the upvote.
- deleted 12y ago
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- yuhong 12y ago
  I would not go that far, but it is funny how this was written after I suggested in HN comments that they do an apology letter to settle the scandal.
- mike_hearn 12y ago
  agl is one of a handful of people who are moving the needle on HTTPS usage, pretty much through sheer force of will. So of all the people you could pick on, you made a really lousy choice.
  - simi_ 12y ago
    My questions were genuine, I am honestly interested in his or HN's opinion.
tripzilch 12y ago
> if you want an encrypted search option, https://encrypted.google.com/ https://encrypted.google.com/ is always encrypted and isn't affected by these methods As the article concluded, "DuckDuckGo it is" :-) Append !g to your query and https://encrypted.google.com https://encrypted.google.com is where it'll send you. You'll get a "feel" for which queries are more suitably answered by Google than DDG quickly enough--which is not all that often as you expect, not because DDG's own results are so incredible, but because as you get the hang of the other !bang operators, you'll find you search directly the very sites that you wished/expected your top Google hits to be in the first place (!w Wikipedia, !so Stackoverflow, !r Reddit, !snopes, !gi !yi !bi image search engines, !map Google maps, !yt Youtube, !wnl !wde !wxx Wikipedia country-code xx, to just name a few I use all the time).

by agl 12y ago

timothya 12y ago

Some more information: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-update-to-safesearch-options-for.html http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-update-t...

simi_ 12y ago

Ha, you're the guy behind Pond (hi!). As a security researcher, how does it feel to work for a company that (reportedly) (pro)actively collaborates with the NSA? Are you ever worried that the company might not be as ethical as it seems to the average Googler? puts on tinfoil hat edit: Thank you for the downvote[s]! edit2: I just remembered a relevant example. Reading "How Google works", I clicked in many ways with their vision about smart creatives and how to run a company properly. However I then immediately realised that it's written by the same a-hole involved in the massive Google-Apple wage fixing scandal [0], and it made me question how much of what's in there is real. 0: http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-rejects-324-5m-wage-fixing-settlement-struck-by-apple-google-others/ http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-rejects-324-5m-wage-fixing-se...

sarciszewski 12y ago
You're welcome for the upvote.
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yuhong 12y ago
I would not go that far, but it is funny how this was written after I suggested in HN comments that they do an apology letter to settle the scandal.
mike_hearn 12y ago
agl is one of a handful of people who are moving the needle on HTTPS usage, pretty much through sheer force of will. So of all the people you could pick on, you made a really lousy choice.
- simi_ 12y ago
  My questions were genuine, I am honestly interested in his or HN's opinion.

tripzilch 12y ago

> if you want an encrypted search option, https://encrypted.google.com/ https://encrypted.google.com/ is always encrypted and isn't affected by these methods As the article concluded, "DuckDuckGo it is" :-) Append !g to your query and https://encrypted.google.com https://encrypted.google.com is where it'll send you. You'll get a "feel" for which queries are more suitably answered by Google than DDG quickly enough--which is not all that often as you expect, not because DDG's own results are so incredible, but because as you get the hang of the other !bang operators, you'll find you search directly the very sites that you wished/expected your top Google hits to be in the first place (!w Wikipedia, !so Stackoverflow, !r Reddit, !snopes, !gi !yi !bi image search engines, !map Google maps, !yt Youtube, !wnl !wde !wxx Wikipedia country-code xx, to just name a few I use all the time).