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		nivla on June 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bing Moving to Encrypt Search Traffic by Default Isn't Google part of it too? If you scrape out Google and Bing, what other good alternatives are you left with that wouldn't comply if requested? Isn't it better to have some prevention against random MITM, especially on mobile devices where your choices are fixed? Like preventing tracking injections from your ISP (namely Verizon or Comcast)?

asuffield on June 17, 2015 | [–]

(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion, not my employer's. Not representing anybody else. I work at Google.)

We have made multiple extremely clear statements on this topic. I link a couple of them here:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/19/google-issues-clearest-sta...

toomuchtodo on June 17, 2015 | | [–]

My favorite Google response: https://plus.google.com/+MikeHearn/posts/LW1DXJ2BK8k

obstinate on June 17, 2015 | | | [–]

Also this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/google...

Cyph0n on June 16, 2015 | [–]

DDG might not comply. Yandex most likely won't. DDG uses Yandex results if I'm not mistaken, so no big difference.

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