Phorm and consent
Ian Batten
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:17:51 +0000
On 11 Mar 08, at 1523, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> BTW: since this system attacks Google's revenue base, would it be
>> anti-
>> competitive of them to start using https:// as default, thereby
>> making
>> rather a mess of Phorm's value proposition ?
>
> Google itself can use https:// but won't most pages that are
> accessed be the websites that Google sends people to?
Currently https://www.google.com redirects to the non-https version,
and if you attempt to force a search to be https you get redirected to
the http front page, so you can't even submit search terms by https.
As you say, Google could change this.
ian