The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) released an updated version of the popular HTTPS Everywhere, a browser plugin, which allows users to automatically connect with HTTPS on many websites. The latest version of the extension supports more than 1,500 websites.
The EFF developed HTTPS Everywhere in collaboration with the Tor Project and designed it to protect users’ communications by default, without users having to specify HTTPS in the URL. The plugin provides a set of rules for various websites, and when a user tries to connect to one of the supported domains, the extension will automatically modify the request to the website to tell the server on the other end that the client wishes to connect via HTTPS.
The new version 5 of HTTPS Everywhere that was released this week brings thousands of new rules (rules) to your browser. A rule defines which resources (websites) will be automatically redirected to HTTPS when you connect from the browser of your choice.
For example, even if you want to open a website whose address starts with https://, you will automatically be redirected to https:// if you have HTTPS Everywhere installed in your browser and have defined a rule for that specific address.
HTTPS Everywhere works on thousands of websites and comes as an extension for the browsers Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
Download the extension for your browser from here.
You can see all the changes brought by the new version from the official Changelog published by the developers of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Also from here you can see how to create new rulesets.
