You’re going to start seeing more warnings in Chrome when accessing insecure sites. Starting next October, Chrome will soon warn users when they visit a public website without an encrypted HTTPS connection.

Chrome already issues a “Your connection is not private” message when you visit pages that have an HTTPS connection that’s misconfigured. But this will expand the warnings to websites that don’t use HTTPS at all.

Google first offered insecure connections warnings for HTTP pages in 2021, but users had to opt in to see them. HTTPS — or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure — uses encryption to establish a secure connection with a website, preventing bad actors from snooping on the private information you enter.

HTTPS connections now make up around 95 to 99 percent of connections, Google s

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