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Web Publishers Increasingly Adopt Encryption
- Dslreports, Wednesday, February 22, 2017 4:42 PM
More than 50% of Web pages are now encrypted, according to data provided by the Chrome and Firefox browsers. Encryption got a boost when Facebook and Twitter implemented HTTPS by default, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Google has also put pressure on the tech community by using HTTPS as a signal in search ranking algorithms," the EFF added.
