Google Chrome this month will be part of a new major update released by the company Google for users around the world, but it seems that it will affect hundreds of thousands of websites around the globe. Version 70 of Google Chrome is expected to be released sometime around October 16, and according to the information that has appeared so far, at least a few hundred of the main 1 million websites on the Internet will be affected by the integrated changes.
Google Chrome will affect a figure much higher than that, globally, and everything is based on the HTTPS certificates used for these websites, specifically the old ones issued by the Symantec company before June 2016. We are talking here both about the website dedicated to ordinary users, as well as about government websites, or websites of large universities, Google Chrome changes requiring the implementation of others by website owners.
Google Chrome Update Will AFFECT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Sites
Google Chrome will not block the respective websites for access, but will display warning messages for visitors telling them that the respective websites do not have secure security certificates, so they are not safe. This will of course convince some users to avoid interacting with those websites, if they access them using Google Chrome, but in reality everything is based on old HTTPS certificates, which should still be safe.
"A lot of secure sites are set to grind to a halt with security error messages in the next version of Google Chrome, after the browser will drop trust for a major HTTPS certificate provider following a series of security incidents. Chrome 70 is expected to be released on or around October 16, when the browser will start blocking sites that run older Symantec certificates issued before June 2016, including legacy branded Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, GeoTrust and RapidSSL certificates."
Google Chrome has not implemented this change without many warnings being made by the Google company in recent months, the Americans saying repeatedly that they will no longer trust the old certificates from Symantec. Google Chrome has had certain types of HTTPS certificates listed in the same category as Symantec's since the release of version 66, so if you see warning messages on certain websites, you know what the problem is.
