EFF to discontinue HTTPS Everywhere Extension

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With the increase in adoption of HTTPS and web browsers offering native controls, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has decided to put its popular browser extension HTTPS Everywhere to maintenance mode in 2022. The company says the aim of the extension launch 10 years back is to make it redundant.

HTTPS Everywhere is an extension available for web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi  The extension when installed tries to load HTTP sites over HTTPS whenever possible.
 
When the extension was initially available, most of the websites doesn’t support HTTPS.
 
Since Mozilla, Google, Microsoft joined hands to increase HTTPS adoption on the web, HTTPS turning out to be unnecessary. It does not only have a lot of sites that were moved to HTTPS from HTTP in recent years but web browsers offering a setting to load pages via secure connection if possible with HTTPS-only mode or HTTPS-first mode. Firefox offers it, so do Microsoft Edge and Chrome.
 
So, enabling the HTTPS-only mode setting is all users need to do in web browsers going forward, they can remove the HTTPS everywhere extension now.
 
“The goal of HTTPS everywhere was always to become redundant. That would mean we’d achieved our larger goal: a world where HTTPS is broadly available and accessible that users no longer need an extra browser extension to get it. Now that world is closer than ever, with mainstream browsers offering native support for HTTPS-only mode.”

Source: EFF to discontinue HTTPS Everywhere Extension (techdows.com)