Why is it worth to take care over HTTPS?

If available, you should always try to visit HTTPS version pages, even if you think they do not support confidential communications. Apart from providing critical security and integrity of personal data, HTTPS is a prerequisite for many new browser features. Here are three important aspects why you should use HTTPS:

• Any unencrypted HTTP request reveals information about your activity. Your internet service provider, employer, hotel where you stay and even your neighbour (if you use the local network) can see exactly which site/movie you are watching. This is especially important when browsing adult pages.
• Many intruders analyse aggregate behaviour to identify users.
• HTTPS not only improves the security of pages being browsed. It is also required for many state-of-the-art functions, such as fast and efficient HTTP / 2 protocol.
• HTTPS protects your privacy and security.
• HTTPS prevents intruders from passively listening to communication between you and the websites you visit.

Any unencrypted HTTP request reveals information about your activity. Your internet service provider, employer, hotel where you stay and even your neighbour (if you use the local network) can see exactly which site/movie you are watching. This is especially important when browsing adult pages.

Although one visit to an unprotected website may seem mild, some intruders look at aggregated browsing activities of users to learn about their behaviour and intentions and to anonymise their identity. For example, employees may accidentally disclose sensitive health conditions to their employers, by simply reading unsecured medical articles. Do you want that third parties do the same when watching pornography?

HTTPS protects the integrity of the website you are visiting

• HTTPS helps prevent intruders from interfering with communication between websites and user browsers. The intruders include deliberately malicious attackers and legitimate but intrusive companies, such as internet service providers or hotels, injecting ads to websites.
• Intruders use insecure communication to trick users into giving up confidential information or installing malware, or to insert their own ads into a website's resources. For example, some third parties inject ads into websites that potentially violate user experience and create vulnerability.
• The intruders would use every unsecured resource that moves between the sites and the users. Images, cookies, scripts and HTML all can be used. Intrusions can occur anywhere in the network, including your computer, Wi-Fi hotspot, or infected ISP, just to name a few.