The real reason is that internet hacking people have been figuring out how to monetize the traffic they sniff. This is merely Google reclaiming the market that is rightfully theirs.
Exactly right. This is not about your privacy... Its about Google protecting their market from say Verizon who could be packet sniffing anything you search on Google, and then selling that data... which then competes with Google.
Google is simply protecting their business. It has nothing to do with user rights or privacy.
But it is a welcomed addition. Its certainly a good thing... but it is also more for Google, than for you.
It's an enhancement that isn't a disadvantage for the user, so we should welcome it.
And if it also prevents man in the middle hacking of web pages it's a good thing.
Actually, this is going to be a big problem for me. I write software to protect school kids from getting to (accidentally or intentionally) dodgy content - this is anything from porn, to sites promoting violence/drugs/etc. Schools usually restrict HTTPS access to a few specific sites since HTTPS is basically unfilterable.
The problem here is that Google has grouped everything they do under a single domain. There is now no way I can allow HTTPS access to the various google apps (which is sensible since thi
I write software to protect school kids from getting to (accidentally or intentionally) dodgy content - this is anything from porn, to sites promoting violence/drugs/etc.
No. Kids don't have instinctive responses to particular web pages; but they do have an ability to soak up prejudices from adults who think that implied disgust and taking away of information are correct ways of providing education.
Adults such as yourself.
Kids need software to protect them from people like you.
No. Kids don't have instinctive responses to particular web pages
If you think this then you haven't dealt with many teenage kids.
adults who think that implied disgust and taking away of information are correct ways of providing education.
Who said anything about providing education?
I'm pretty anti-censorship and think that people should have access to whatever information they like. *However* I'm not crazy enough to believe that the very young are capable of dealing with all that information - they should only get access to some of it when they have matured to the point of being able to deal with it.
There are 3 things that kids need protecting against: 1. accidentally stumbling
Yet is it your right to restrict this information from them without them having any choice in the matter? You also talk about "distracting content" - when I was in high school, my random browsing taught me far more than any of the teachers did. Downloading games and movies at school gave me things to do that I otherwise could never have afforded to pay for. In fact, most kids will do the same. Just about every tech-literate high school kid now knows about proxies, and won't hesitate to use them. Then the pr
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Exactly right. This is not about your privacy... Its about Google protecting their market from say Verizon who could be packet sniffing anything you search on Google, and then selling that data... which then competes with Google.
Google is simply protecting their business. It has nothing to do with user rights or privacy.
But it is a welcomed addition. Its certainly a good thing... but it is also more for Google, than for you.
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It's an enhancement that isn't a disadvantage for the user, so we should welcome it.
And if it also prevents man in the middle hacking of web pages it's a good thing.
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It's an enhancement that isn't a disadvantage for the user, so we should welcome it.
And if it also prevents man in the middle hacking of web pages it's a good thing.
Actually, this is going to be a big problem for me. I write software to protect school kids from getting to (accidentally or intentionally) dodgy content - this is anything from porn, to sites promoting violence/drugs/etc. Schools usually restrict HTTPS access to a few specific sites since HTTPS is basically unfilterable.
The problem here is that Google has grouped everything they do under a single domain. There is now no way I can allow HTTPS access to the various google apps (which is sensible since thi
Re:The real reason (Score:2)
I write software to protect school kids from getting to (accidentally or intentionally) dodgy content - this is anything from porn, to sites promoting violence/drugs/etc.
No. Kids don't have instinctive responses to particular web pages; but they do have an ability to soak up prejudices from adults who think that implied disgust and taking away of information are correct ways of providing education.
Adults such as yourself.
Kids need software to protect them from people like you.
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No. Kids don't have instinctive responses to particular web pages
If you think this then you haven't dealt with many teenage kids.
adults who think that implied disgust and taking away of information are correct ways of providing education.
Who said anything about providing education?
I'm pretty anti-censorship and think that people should have access to whatever information they like. *However* I'm not crazy enough to believe that the very young are capable of dealing with all that information - they should only get access to some of it when they have matured to the point of being able to deal with it.
There are 3 things that kids need protecting against:
1. accidentally stumbling
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