Developers have been working on new technology like HTTP/2 to speed up your web browsing, but HTTP/2 is only allowed on HTTPS connections. You might expect that HTTPS is slower than HTTP, but you’d be wrong. If you’re visiting Wikipedia, your ISP and anyone else would only be able to see you’re reading Wikipedia, not what you’re reading about. So, if you were reading about a medical condition on a page like /medical_condition, even your Internet service provider would only be able to see that you’re connected to -not what medical condition you’re reading about. They can only see the address of the website you’re connecting to.
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With HTTPS, no one can see the full path of the web pages you visit.
(Technically, this doesn’t verify identity as well as Extended Validation (EV) certificates. For example, a malicious Wi-Fi hotspot could redirect people to these types of imposter websites while they’re connected to the public Wi-Fi. If Google was just using unencrypted HTTP, there would be no way to tell whether you were connected to the real or to an imposter site designed to trick you and steal your password. For example, if you’re on a public Wi-Fi hotspot and connect to, Google’s servers will provide a security certificate that is only valid for. HTTPS also provides protection against malicious people impersonating a website. Website owners have to set up HTTPS before it will work on their websites. Your web browser uses the HTTP protocol to connect to traditional unencrypted websites, but uses HTTPS–literally, HTTP with SSL-when connecting to secure websites. This occurs because the website is set up to use secure SSL encryption. Even if you enter passwords, provide credit card numbers, or receive sensitive financial data over the connection, the encryption ensures no one can eavesdrop on what’s being sent or alter the data packets while they’re travelling between your device and the website’s server.
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