Compare Chrome extensions: HTTPS Everywhere vs Disconnect

Stats HTTPS Everywhere HTTPS Everywhere Disconnect Disconnect
User count 1,656,162+ 500,000+
Average rating 4.46 4.40
Rating count 4,278 3,138
Last updated 2022-09-30 2020-10-07
Size 1.77M 1.04M
Version 2022.5.24 20.3.1.1
Short description
Encrypt the Web! Automatically use HTTPS security on many sites. Make the web faster, more private, and more secure.
Full summary

Note: Extension will sunset January 2023. Instructions on how to turn on HTTPS by default in Chrome here: https://eff.org/https-everywhere/set-https-default-your-browser

HTTPS Everywhere is an extension created by EFF and the Tor Project which automatically switches thousands of sites from insecure "http" to secure "https". It will protect you against many forms of surveillance and account hijacking, and some forms of censorship.

The DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption list is publicly available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0. International license. If you'd like to license the list for commercial use, please reach out to: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/contact-us/

Source code and bug tracker are available at https://github.com/efforg/https-everywhere. Please do not submit bug reports in the reviews!

Changelog: https://www.eff.org/files/Changelog.txt

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If HTTPS Everywhere causes a site to look weird or break, you can disable it for that site using the button in the address bar in the top right of your screen. HTTPS Everywhere for Chrome is currently in beta, and a few such issues are inevitable due to bugs in websites' HTTPS support. Also watch for a "shield" button in the address bar, which means that Chrome blocked insecure portions of the page. Sometimes pages will look weird with their insecure portions removed. Clicking on the shield will let you load them, but will reduce your security and privacy.

Special thanks to Aaron Swartz, Mike Perry, Jay Weisskopf, Nick Semenkovich, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Yan Zhu, Vijay P., and William Budington for their work on the Chrome port.

Disconnect lets you visualize and block the invisible websites that track you. Load the pages you go to 44% faster. Stop tracking by thousands of third-party sites.

Disconnect was named the best privacy tool by the New York Times (2016), Innovation Award winner for Best Privacy and Security software at South by Southwest (2015), listed as one of the 100 best innovations of the year by Popular Science and one of the 20 best Chrome extensions by Lifehacker.

Disconnect is open-source http://git.io/Do5OtA, pay-what-you-want software https://disconnect.me/support.

You can get help on our site https://disconnect.me/disconnect/help.

Note: Green (or checked) means blocked!