In fact it is itself an upgrade from the very popular add-on developed by the EFF known as HTTPS Everywhere. The Smart HTTPS add-on makes sure that if any connection for websites or subsequent resources can be upgraded to HTTPS, then it will. And even if a website is served over HTTPS, it is very common that some of the resources getting subsequently requested, are fetched over HTTP. HTTPS ensures that any data we receive or send to such a website, can not be read, or get tampered with along the way, from attackers.īut even when many websites support HTTPS today, not enough of them update the connection automatically to it if it begins over plain HTTP. “Automatically changes HTTP addresses to using the secure HTTPS, and if loading encounters error, reverts it back to HTTP.”Ĭonnecting to a website over HTTPS (commonly denoted with a green padlock in the addressbar) goes a long way to to protect the user from many attacks. One must always keep in mind, though, that Google is a corporation making 96% of it’s revenue from advertising, so while Chrome is an otherwise very secure browser, it cannot be expected to value our privacy to any degree. Google’s Chrome browser became very popular, very fast, mainly due to it having been ahead of the competition performance-wise until now.
So let’s start off on the right foot, shall we? While there’s a lot that can be done with browser add-ons, the actual browser we choose to use, being our window to the internet itself, is of highest importance. Let’s begin by reconsidering our chosen browser However many of the add-ons can be found in Google’s Chrome Web Store with the same name or as very similar alternatives. This collection is put together primarily with the already privacy respecting Firefox browser in mind. In this article we will focus specifically on some browser add-ons we can easily and quickly install in our browser to enhance our security. Luckily there are a few simple steps users of any level could take to be much safer when surfing the web. Sadly that’s not the only way users can get screwed on the Web today. Online advertisements undermine the users and their experience in more ways than one:Īds are commonly known to considerably fatten-up a website’s payload and decrease its performance, promote clickbait titles, fingerprint and stalk users, (ab)use their computer to mine cryptocoins, or lead them to scam websites phising their login credentials, among many more. User fingerprinting is rampant but that’s just one facet of it.
Browsing the Web these days is not as secure as it used to be.
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