Thank you for this information. I have noticed that there is an increasing number of sites recently that do not have https on their site name and that is quite worrying to use them.
The way I have my browser set up, it will block the site outright. I will have to confirm that I want to visit it if it is not secured and certified. It just makes sense to avoid most of these sites for safety reasons alone.
That is what my browser tends to do as well, and it will come up with a warning message for the site and then after that you can decide if you want to still advance to the webpage
Do you get the red page? Maybe that is just standard these days. Not all sites are bad that aren't secured but a lot of them are and that is why I just avoid them. Unless I am working on a site or visiting a site that I know the owner personally, I will not go to it without it being certified.
Yes the website has actually become a very red page and I think that it is a very good development because it also gives us the chance to stop going to the website before it actually causes any damage to the laptop that you were using.
I think back in the day it was just a blank off-grey page that prompted a mild warning. They probably had to change it for people to get their attention cause too many people (probably younger and older folks) were falling for scams.
Do you know those AdFly pages? I can't tell you how many times my own parents have fallen for those. Both of which have been using computers on a regular basis since the late '80s. I guess if you don't learn security, you just don't know any better.
There is a lot of those pages that i have come across and what i have done is that now there is a link skipper that i have on my browser that actually allows me to go past those pages directly to the destination. It is much easier.
I should probably set my parents up with one. I never see them because of all the ad-blocking plugins I use now but I know these are still out there cause they still cause issues for my family.
The free option is always considered to be the better option because at least that way you can be sure that it is not going to eat into your profits in any way.
