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A browser extension that encrypts your communications with many websites that offer HTTPS but still allow unencrypted connections.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2013-12-06 · latest 2022-07-15

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  1. …block non-HTTPS connections to hidden services, even when in "HTTPS-Only" mode. Thankfully. [0]: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/pull/4370
    comment by fuglede_ · 2022-07-15 · in Tor Browser 11.5: automatic censorship detection, HTTPS-Only by default and more
  2. As an alternative to similarity check, you could perhaps use the https-everywhere rulesets: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/blob/master/src/c...
    comment by captn3m0 · 2021-04-05 · in Show HN: I wrote an HN bot to suggest HTTPS url when people post HTTP URLs
  3. Encrypt All Sites Eligible doesn't prevent http to .onion sites. See the check here: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/blob/bcaf7bdecf14... Edit: Which is not to say that there aren't rules forcing some .onion sites to https,…
    comment by hcs · 2020-08-10 · in How malicious Tor relays are exploiting users in 2020
  4. …analyzer.py [4] https://pastebin.com/raw/hkzZ0m5f upgradability.csv [5] https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/tree/master/src/c... (Sorry about the pastebin.com links. I don't want to have this HN account associated to my rea
    comment by oefrha · 2020-07-11 · in Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more than half upgradable
  5. …absolute memory hog, and they've been unable to fix it. They closed the old bug for no real reason: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1775 Then let the new bug rot: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/12232…
    comment by Someone1234 · 2019-04-10 · in Blocking high-risk non-secure downloads
  6. …to find a phone browser that supports extensions. 1: https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes 2: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere
    comment by greglindahl · 2017-01-09 · in You can't disable Google AMP
  7. …This'll happen eventually, but with 50% of page loads using HTTPS, we're not quite there yet. [1]: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/tree/master/src/c...
    comment by pfg · 2016-11-04 · in Here’s to more HTTPS on the web
  8. They load the entire rule dataset into memory. https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1775
    comment by deno · 2016-07-09 · in Chrome extension to indicate background network activity per tab
  9. …or less manually maintained rulesets for redirection; https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/atlas/ https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/tree/master/src/c...
    comment by pred_ · 2016-04-09 · in WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites
  10. It bothers me that "HTTPS Everywhere" calls https://check.torproject.org to check for tor: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/blob/master/src/c... I don't want my browsing calling random websites at any moment... whatever the…
    comment by jgome · 2015-04-03 · in HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Rules
  11. And that's not the only problem: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/144 https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/849
    comment by anfedorov · 2015-04-03 · in HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Rules
  12. …rules are built in such a way that only the protocol is changed and the domain is left as-is. [1] https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/tree/master/src/c... [2] https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/blob/master/src/c...
    comment by extrapolate · 2015-04-02 · in HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Rules