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Originally Posted by KC911
Take off yer tin foil hat. Google doesn't give a poop imo....nor do I  . Outside of a few things (logon/passwords).....why would one insist that PARF and bikini bridge threads be encrypted in transmission...high level govt snoopers  ? |
Google was the one driving the push and you can bet it wasn't merely to improve the security of the internet. No tinfoil conspiracy stuff here. Google was a driving force in this and even improved your position in search results if you had an SSL as I understand it.
I really don't care, but if you look you'll find that google was pushing for SSL use. I use a popular website builder and was told that google was pushing SSL's and that I should purchase one with my website. I didn't fully understand SSL's nor do I now so I purchased one and my site had that pretty green lock rather than that scary red caution with "not secure" next to it. After I purchased, I started reading about SSL's and found in several places that Google was pushing it for better security to prevent others from seeing your activity or something along those lines. I found that the SSL is really only necessary for sites involved in e-commerce which my site isn't. Kinda pissed away some money there but didn't want my customers coming to my site seeing that "not secure" and leaving the site out of security concerns. Lesson learned.