In September 2023, Google Chrome will stop showing the lock icon when a site loads over HTTPS, partly due to the now ubiquitous use of the protocol. The misunderstood Lock icon It took many years, but the unceasing push by Google, other browser makers and Let’s Encrypt to make HTTPS the norm for accessing resources on the Web resulted in an unmitigated success; according to Google, over 95% of page loads in Chrome on Windows … More
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