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