Google Chrome v68 releases: All HTTP sites are marked as “not secure”
With Chrome 68 today, all unencrypted sites are marked as “Not Secure” on the address bar. Google has already begun to promote it very early, but there was not a lot of support at the time. There is a specific technical threshold for the difficulty of migrating to HTTPS, and the cost is relatively high; secondly, no industry at the time is promoting this change.
After several years of promotion, Google has drawn the attention of users and webmasters by marking these websites as unsafe links in the Chrome browser. At Google’s efforts, 68% of traffic on Chrome is currently using https protocol. On the Top 100 website, 81 websites have used HTTPS by default.
On the official support page, Google explained:
“For the past several years, we’ve advocated that sites adopt HTTPS encryption for greater security. Within the last year, we’ve also helped users by marking a larger subset of HTTP pages as “not secure”. Beginning in July 2018 with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure””