DuckDuckGo launches Smarter Encryption feature in its extensions and apps

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo announced the launch of a new feature today that it calls Smarter Encryption. Smarter Encryption is designed to upgrade requests to HTTP sites automatically to HTTPS if the site in question supports HTTPS and if it is on DuckDuckGo's list of sites that can be upgraded. The majority of Internet sites use HTTPS already but there are still sites out there that use HTTP only or support both HTTP and HTTPS. The latter can be accessed using both protocols and Internet users either have to make sure to access the HTTPS version of these sites or… [Continue Reading]