For now it doesn't show up on Bing for Italy, but it might be only a matter of time. Sounds like Bing wants to put greater emphasis on secure websites, too.
engine
9:27 am on Nov 23, 2020 (gmt 0)
Thanks, obviously, it's being rolled out by region. I've never been keen on this labeling. I know many small businesess and charities that don't have the funds to go "secure" and, importantly, they don't need it, yet to the average surfer it looks bad with sites on http.
dstiles
10:18 am on Nov 23, 2020 (gmt 0)
My wife mentioned it as something new yesterday (UK). Probably a good thing.
they don't need it
It's not a case of the web site content not needing to be encrypted. "Secure", if correctly implemented, protects the user from a whole raft of injection and other possibilities such as XSS, which can be injected in transit. Browsing and other details can also be captured on a non-secure site. People are being educated to see https as a desirability and many will now quit a site if it's not.
Note the above qualification: "if correctly implemented". Many sites still may not implement any or all of the secure policiy headers even when encrypted, which can still leave sites open to nasties.
engine
10:50 am on Nov 23, 2020 (gmt 0)
I agree, yes, it's favourable to have it, but, this is a way of shaming sites that have little or no budget to implement it. They are already struggling with income through Covid-19 this year.
JorgeV
3:24 pm on Nov 23, 2020 (gmt 0)
Hello,
It's been 5 years that it's know that HTTPS would become the standard for all sites on the web. So it left plenty of times, for publishers to switch. Also, you can get TLS certificate for free, and most hosts proposes them, and automate the process for you. There are even webserver software like Caddy, which are handling everything , including the renewal by itself. So everybody can have a HTTPS site, at not cost of money or time.
So this is not shocking me, when Bing starts adding a label, and for sites which are not secure, I would worry more about Browsers, in a near future switching to HTTPS-only.
engine
3:36 pm on Nov 23, 2020 (gmt 0)
I agree, it has been quite some time in the making, but still, it, and Google's move on this, don't help.
There are many ways to get this at low cost, but that's not for charities that don't have a webmaster, or any support. If you're up for it, there are many charities out there that could use all the free tech support, and no ongoing costings. ;)
