HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by gslin » Wed, May 25, 2022, 12:19 PM UTC

HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023
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Re: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by sharmin123 » Wed, May 25, 2022, 12:24 PM UTC

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Re: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by theandrewbailey » Wed, May 25, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

That was a good extension for a specific time. I stopped using it about 5 years ago when everyone had been pushing HTTPS hard, and Let's Encrypt had become popular. I didn't notice any websites not using HTTPS, so I didn't look back.

Re: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by Taywee » Wed, May 25, 2022, 12:55 PM UTC

This is the kind of sunset you love to see. Retirement because they succeeded and therefore became redundant, rather than due to failure. If there's one organization I love to see succeed, it's the EFF.

Re: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by bombcar » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:04 PM UTC

theandrewbailey wrote: post #3

That was a good extension for a specific time. I stopped using it about 5 years ago when everyone had been pushing HTTPS hard, and Let's Encrypt had become popular. I didn't notice any websites not using HTTPS, so I didn't look back.

http://neverssl.com remains for those badly-setup wifi networks.

Re: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by silviot » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:10 PM UTC

bombcar wrote: post #5

theandrewbailey wrote: post #3

That was a good extension for a specific time. I stopped using it about 5 years ago when everyone had been pushing HTTPS hard, and Let's Encrypt had become popular. I didn't notice any websites not using HTTPS, so I didn't look back.

http://neverssl.com remains for those badly-setup wifi networks.

Thanks! I'll stop using captive.apple.com now that I know about this!

Re: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by viraptor » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:13 PM UTC

theandrewbailey wrote: post #3

That was a good extension for a specific time. I stopped using it about 5 years ago when everyone had been pushing HTTPS hard, and Let's Encrypt had become popular. I didn't notice any websites not using HTTPS, so I didn't look back.

There are still places that don't auto-redirect to https for some reason. Maybe a temporary misconfiguration. I just ran into http://www.mbsonline.gov.au today and was surprised it didn't redirect and has broken https, even though that org really shouldn't do that.

Re: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by zagrebian » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:14 PM UTC

Can we also sunset animated GIFs, while we’re at it?

Re: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by DizzyDoo » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:15 PM UTC

There's a piece of animation software that I use in my game development called Spine, and it's truly fantastic and the developers and staff are great... but the PHPBB forums don't have https enabled. I've brought it up on these same forums[0] but I don't think they get why https is an important thing to turn on, even in 2022.

Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying that the site is insecure. I can't imagine that's a terribly good first impression, even though, again, Spine is one of the best animation packages out there.

[0] - http://esotericsoftware.com/forum/HTTPS-for-EsotericSoftware...

Re: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

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Post by junon » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:16 PM UTC

Great job on this. The sunset in this case means it worked. Everyone benefits from the work done here and will continue to do so. Love to see it!