Google has been trying to make the internet more secure for quite some time now. In July this year, the search giant began adding a warning on Chrome for users who land on sites that aren’t using the HTTPS protocol. Apple is now following suit and is trialling the same feature on its Safari web browser.
On Chrome, if a user arrives at a page using the unsecure HTTP protocol, or any other site not using the HTTPS form of secure encryption, the padlock in the URL bar will be replaced with a message that reads: “not secure”.
