Google decided to turn on encrypted search a.k.a https for logged in users to make their search more secure, what this makes is: when you’re signed into your Google account, you’ll be redirected to https://google.com, which encrypts queries you type and search results you access i.e only Google knows what you’re searching for.
Firefox to Use Google’s HTTPS Search by Default
Staying on Classic Google without being to Redirected to encrypted Google
Over the few weeks, this feature will be enabled for all users which is useful when you perform searches from Cybercafés and Wi-Fi hotspots, there is one downside as well with this change, searches will be more slower as encrypted data travels slower than the unencrypted data and your computer needs to decrypt all the data.
It is obvious for Google to release its new features to Chrome first as its their own browser, hence you better watch out for redirects to https version in their browser first.
Google makes SSL Search default in Chrome
Disabling redirect to encrypted search for your Google account
When you logged in,
Click on ‘Options’ next to your profile icon > select ‘Search Settings’, scroll down until you find “Secure connection” option, uncheck/remove tick mark for Use a Secure HTTPS connection when available, click “Save Preferences” button to save changes to your Google account.
From now onwards, whenever you sign into your Google account irrespective of the browser you use, you won’t be redirected to https://google.com. [Via]
Why?
More secure is better.
Yeah, more secure is better, and the services of Google is good, so speed of https is good. (At least in may case is.)
If want to faster or not need that secure, or some reason or just like, http is okay I thought.
That option does not appear to exist today – no way to stop the default SSL.
Why is that important? A few hundred thousand of us are on high-latency satellite connections. If you think it is fun waiting 20 seconds for the Google home page to come up you are crazy! We put up with slow SSL where it is important, including banking, but there is no security concern while using your own satellite connection to search the web.
It is also any easy way for Google to track the searches of its user accounts directly… ie whatever is searches for is relate to the user account and any identifiable information provided therein.
If it is off, then they would have least have to track the ip connections in the server logs back to an isp provider…. assuming there wasn’t more redirecting through anonymous proxies in different countries… or through the darknet…
So SSL search on google may make you a little more secure from everyone else, unless someone has already compromise your system and obfuscated a man-in-the-middle type of attack….
… but it doesn’t secure you from Google.