Google has announced its plan to remove the Secure label from HTTPS sites starting this year.
The company claims to have been analyzing the decision for more than two years.
- The company claims that the decision is part of a larger plan to simplify the Chrome UI and encourage website owners to use HTTPS by default.
- Google will stop highlighting the padlock icon for HTTPS sites, as it claims it has become a baseline expectation of security.
- Chrome will still show a "Not Secure" warning for sites that do not use HTTPS or have other security issues.
- Google's decision has been criticized by security experts, who believe it may lead to a false sense of security among users.
- The company, however, says that it has conducted research for more than two years regarding user behavior.