Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia sites HTTPS by default (was Ads Injected into Wikipedia?)

2012-05-09 Thread John Vandenberg
I'm quite sure that browser addons can inject Ads into https, if they want to. so https is not the answer to this problem. do you have evidence otherwise? On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Anirudh Bhati wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia sites HTTPS by default (was Ads Injected into Wikipedia?)

2012-05-09 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
John, I've seen some differences in https vs https, namely: * The ads, I haven't seen them on https, but only on http. * Blocking Wikipedia/Commons, https is difficult to block. I suggest everyone start using https. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:00 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I'm

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia sites HTTPS by default (was Ads Injected into Wikipedia?)

2012-05-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Anirudh Bhati wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: Ok then can we not make the default version the https one like say google does. This will not be a permanent solution, I'm afraid. Encrypting your browser traffic does quite durably