How To Remove “Not Secure” Warning In Google Chrome

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Not Secure is a new warning in the address bar that appears anytime you are visiting an insecure web page while using the latest versions of Google chrome such as version 68.

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This type of warning simply notifies the user of the website that the web page being accessed lacks security for connection. In other words, any information received and sent over such a web page is not protected in any way, therefore may be stolen.

This warning still is associated with all web pages that use HTTP protocol, which is incapable of providing a secure connection. Although this was the primary communication protocol over the internet, the introduction of HTTPS in recent years has improved internet communication in terms of security, browsing, logging in, and making purchases.

You should note that this has nothing to do with sites being affected by malware, It only serves to alert you that you do not have a secure connection with that page. This is so because some websites can only support secure HTTPS connections on some pages, but not all.

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What to do here

After knowing the source and cause of such a notification, then we can think of ways we can terminate it completely from our browsers. Note that, in this tutorial, we shall consider two types of users of the website, that is, the website owners, and website visitors.

Website Owners solution

For this category of users, for instance, you are a website administrator and you keep on seeing this warning over your sites, then you should resolve it by enabling the HTTPS protocol for your site

HTTPS uses the SSL/TLS protocol to provide a secure connection, which is both encrypted and authenticated. In this case, an additional cost may incur in terms of purchasing SSL /TLS for your site, and then you can install that certificate and enable the HTTPS protocol on your web server.

In other cases, you should make sure to check if your site architecture supports HTTPS, note that some sites have partial support, meaning they have deployed HTTPS to some parts of the site, or else completely throughout the entire site by default.

If you neither have any of the above and HTTPS is not deployed at all, you can visit some other sites and use their certificate wizard to help you figure out which SSL certificate you need. Another thing to note is that your need will vary depending on how many domain names you operate and if you want your business to be validated for additional user trust.

Most popular web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari are moving to a user interface that will warn users about insecure pages, so it is important to support HTTPS both for the security benefits and for the optimal user experience.

Website Visitors

The reason you are seeing this kind of warning(Not Secure) is that the web page or website you are visiting is not providing a secure connection. When your Chrome browser connects to a website, it can either use HTTP (insecure) or HTTPS (secure).

Any page providing an HTTP connection will cause this type of warning to be displayed. You should avoid conducting any sensitive transactions on these pages such as logging in, providing personal information, or payment information. Browsing insecure sites could put you at risk if you are viewing information that is dangerous or not accepted in your country.

As a visitor, you cannot fix the cause of this warning. The only way to solve the issue is for the website operator to obtain an SSL certificate and enable HTTPS on their site. This will allow your browser to connect securely with the HTTPS protocol, which it will do automatically once the website is properly configured.

If a site you frequently use is displaying the “Not Secure” warning, you should contact them and ask them to start supporting HTTPS. You can also try manually replacing HTTP with HTTPS in the URL as some sites may have partial support for HTTPS but don’t offer it by default.

Note that even with basic browsing over HTTP such as looking at recipes or reading news, what you are looking at can be monitored, modified, and recorded by entities, such as your ISP or government.

This effectively means you do not have any privacy when browsing such pages. On public Wi-Fi networks, like at a coffee shop or airport, there is an additional risk from local attackers, other computers on that network which are able to view and monitor the pages you are looking at, the information you are sending them, and what you are searching for.