Google Chrome will no longer display HTTPS site as “secure” site

According to the plan, Google Chrome will no longer display the “secure” word in the address bar when you access to any https site. Currently, users can see this feature in the beta version of Canary.

Strictly speaking, cancelling the HTTPS security typeface is not a new feature. After all, it is not displayed, and Google adds an extra character display to promote encryption.

However, the current display is to be cancelled, even if HTTPS encryption does not display the security typeface, instead, the small black lock represents the connection encryption.

Why did Google cancel this display:

The initial addition of this character display is to urge the website to deploy HTTPS encryption as early as possible. After many years, the whole network encryption has achieved excellent results.

So the initial measures to improve HTTPS coverage should be removed, but this is not the main reason why Google removed the character display.

The main reason lies in the scams of phishing websites: more and more phishing websites use HTTPS secure connections to obtain security words to induce potential victims.

Mozilla has also become an “accomplice”:

The Wisdom Foundation has joined forces with some organisations to provide us with an encryption program to offer https certificates to various websites or services for security.

However, there is evidence that a large number of phishing websites use the project to obtain HTTPS certificates for fraud, so security experts have accused the Wise Foundation of its fault.

Plus Google Chrome defaults to displaying security words to make phishing sites more enjoyable. This is the main reason why Google Chrome is about to cancel HTTPS security.

As for the Wise Foundation, there is nothing to say. The project itself is to improve cybersecurity, but the Wise Foundation has no review obligations.

The Google Chrome address bar no longer displays the beginning of the WWW:

As you can see, you may find that even if the address you are accessing is not the beginning of the WWW, Google Chrome will not hide the prefix directly.

As for this starting point, we haven’t figured out the truth. Perhaps it is to shorten the address so that users can more easily distinguish different domain names.

It should be noted that the hidden WWW is a test function, so subsequent versions may change, so in the end, we may see some differences in the official release.