Restrict how, and for how long, Chrome stores site content provided over insecure connectionsĪ deeper explanation of how we plan to act on these principles, as well as an updated list of affected features will be maintained on the Chromium wiki and we are excited to announce more details later this year.

Limit the ability for sites to opt out of security policies over insecure connections.

Better inform users when making trust decisions about sites over insecure connections.In order to focus on changes that provide the greatest security improvements to our users, we are relying on a set of guiding principles to prioritize our future work in this area: Continuing from our past efforts to restrict new features to secure origins and deprecate powerful features on insecure origins, we’ll evaluate a broad set of web platform features to determine if they should be limited or restricted on HTTP webpages. While we are excited to see users adopt HTTPS-First Mode in future versions of Chrome, HTTP connections will still continue to be supported and Chrome will take additional steps to protect and inform users whenever they are using insecure connections. In all cases, we'll provide advance notice if we decide to move ahead with a full launch.

Importantly, a 'Not Secure' indicator will continue to show on sites without HTTPS support, and the experiment includes an enterprise policy in case organizations want to opt-out. We hope that this experiment will improve the discoverability of critical privacy and security information and controls provided in Page Info, such as site permissions. To try and reduce this confusion, Chrome will run an experiment in M93 that replaces the lock in the address bar with a more neutral entry point to Page Info (example below). In a recent study, we found that only 11% of participants could correctly identify the meaning of the lock icon. Note that since mixed content blocking already happens in. Passive mixed content is displayed by default, but users can set a preference to block this type of content, as well. Consequently, your website may appear broken to users (if iframes or plugins dont load, etc.). In particular, our research indicates that users often associate this icon with a site being trustworthy, when in fact it's only the connection that's secure. If your website delivers HTTPS pages, all active mixed content delivered via HTTP on this pages will be blocked by default. As we approach an HTTPS-first future, we're also re-examining the lock icon that browsers typically show when a site loads over HTTPS.

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