How to Check Whether Your Web Connection’s Secure

According to SpreadPrivacy.com ….

It’s easy to underestimate how awesome encrypted Internet connections are. Sure, they may not sound exciting, but without them, things like our financial details, medical histories, and relationship problems would all be visible to Internet providers, or even people on the same network as you. Without secure connections, when you’re checking your bank statement in a coffee shop, Secretive Sam in the corner could be checking your bank statement too!

Such eavesdropping is prevented by visiting a website over a secure connection. When you do so, only the website’s domain name is visible to others (e.g. the “duckduckgo.com” part), and not the page content itself, or any other data such as search terms you might send with it or type into the page after it loads. As long as your connection is encrypted, everything after the domain name cannot be seen by any servers in between you and the website.

See the full article here: https://spreadprivacy.com/secure-web-connection/