Security News > 2023 > October > Google Chrome now auto-upgrades to secure connections for all users
Google has taken a significant step towards enhancing Chrome internet security by automatically upgrading insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS requests for 100% of users.
A limited rollout of this feature in Google Chrome began in July, but as of October 16th, Google has now rolled it out to all users on the Stable channel.
HTTPS-upgrades is a Google Chrome feature that automatically upgrades all main-frame navigations to HTTPS, the secure version of the HyperText Transfer Protocol while ensuring a quick fallback to HTTP if needed.
Historically, browsers often made insecure HTTP requests to sites that were capable of supporting HTTPS. Whether that be due to users clicking on old links or because content on websites has not been upgraded to use the new protocol, connections over the HTTP protocol are not encrypted and can be snooped on to steal credentials or other sensitive data.
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