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User count 1,656,162+ 100,000+
Average rating 4.46 4.77
Rating count 4,278 217
Last updated 2022-09-30 2024-03-27
Size 1.77M 7.20M
Version 2022.5.24 2.0.19
Short description
Encrypt the Web! Automatically use HTTPS security on many sites. Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery.
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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.

It prevents a lot of requests from reaching networks like Google Hosted Libraries, and serves local files to keep sites from breaking. Complements regular content blockers.

Websites have increasingly begun to rely much more on large third-parties for content delivery. Canceling requests for ads or trackers is usually without issue, however blocking actual content, not unexpectedly, breaks pages. The aim of this add-on is to cut out the middleman by providing lightning speed delivery of local (bundled) files to improve online privacy.

 • Protects privacy by evading large delivery networks that claim to offer free services.
 • Complements regular blockers such as uBlock Origin (recommended), Adblock Plus, et al.
 • Works directly out of the box; absolutely no prior configuration required.

Note: Decentraleyes is no silver bullet, but it does prevent a lot of websites from making you send these kinds of requests. Ultimately, you can make Decentraleyes block requests for any missing CDN resources, too.