Chrome 69 will remove ‘Secure’ label on HTTPS sites in September


Google Chrome Secure

Google previously announced that it would start displaying “not secure” labels to HTTP sites back in February. Google shows the secure label for sites with HTTPS in its address bar so to make users feel that the web is secure by default and needs no indication. 

Google intends to warn users when there’s an issue, meaning that the default unmarked state is secure so, Google is marching towards removing Chrome’s positive security indicators.  Chrome will roll this out over time; it will start by removing the “Secure” wording and HTTPS scheme with Google Chrome 69 that will roll out in September 2018.

Since the usage of HTTP was high, marking all HTTP pages with a strong red warning became tedious, but in October 2018 (Chrome 70), Google will start showing the red “not secure” warning when users enter data on HTTP pages. For those who are not familiar, HTTPS is a more secure version of the HTTP protocol used on the internet. This also reduces the risk of users being vulnerable to content injection or any other phishing attacks.

Google with the release of Chrome 56 that was rolled out in January 2017 started marking HTTP pages as not secure when data is being entered.

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