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Originally Posted by PCH
There’s no need to do any of this
amending your bookmarks.
The site owner can easily and quickly
re-route all the variants to the https address
internally so that you go to the https site regardless
of what you type in (or have saved in your bookmark)
Just satin’
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Except for all the sites that don't, such as ~90% of the ones I tested today. So thanks for that, but the advice was, in fact, pretty useless. Just sayin'.
More useful advice would be to install a browser extension called
HTTPS Everywhere (available for most popular browsers), which forces use of HTTPS if available, regardless of whether you used HTTP or HTTPS in your address bar/bookmark:
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
HTTPS Everywhere is a free and open-source browser extension for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox for Android, which is developed collaboratively by The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
It automatically makes websites use a more secure HTTPS connection instead of HTTP, if they support it. The option "Encrypt All Sites Eligible" makes it possible to block and unblock all non-HTTPS browser connections with one click.
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But if you like your browser with minimal extensions - like me - you can edit your bookmarks.