Google will also offer resources to developers to hunt out miscreant content on their own sites and apply fixes. By the time Chrome 81 releases in February, 2020, the phased changes will have been applied and Chrome will block insecure content by default. The new settings will be phased to ensure no immediate shocks to the Chrome ecosystem, with specific content that fails to be pushed to HTTPS being blocked and users warned. Starting with Chrome 79 this year, Google will “will gradually move to blocking all mixed content by default.” As ever with encryption changes, there’s a real risk of inadvertently breaking the internet experience for users and so there will be an “opt-out,” essentially users can agree to enable mixed content on specific sites. ![]() These exemptions still “threaten users’ privacy and security,” Google explains, “for example, an attacker could tamper with a mixed image of a stock chart to mislead investors, or inject a tracking cookie into a mixed resource load.”
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