The Verge now defaults to HTTPS
The Verge now serves 100 percent of its pages on HTTPS by default, which was a significant undertaking. We asked Ian Carrico, a performance engineer on the Vox Media Product team, to explain what that means, and dive into some of the details.
On March 21st, 2017 we enabled The Verge to be accessible via HTTPS, and today we’re happy to say 100 percent of Verge traffic is being sent through HTTPS by default. With recent actions by Congress, it has become more important than ever to protect our users’ privacy in every way we can. We have been working for over a year to ensure all of our content is ready for an HTTPS-only world, and we’re happy to reach this milestone.
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