Editing Web traffic (section)

==Traffic encryption==
{{Main|HTTPS}}
According to [[Mozilla]] since January 2017, more than half of the Web traffic is [[Encryption|encrypted]] with [[HTTPS]].<ref>{{cite web|title=We're Halfway to Encrypting the Entire Web|url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/were-halfway-encrypting-entire-web|publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation|access-date=3 May 2017|language=en|date=21 February 2017|archive-date=31 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210331093749/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/were-halfway-encrypting-entire-web|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Finley|first1=Klint|title=Half the Web Is Now Encrypted. That Makes Everyone Safer|url=https://www.wired.com/2017/01/half-web-now-encrypted-makes-everyone-safer/|magazine=WIRED|date=31 January 2017|access-date=1 May 2017|archive-date=3 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303145936/https://www.wired.com/2017/01/half-web-now-encrypted-makes-everyone-safer/|url-status=live}}</ref> Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP]], and it secures information and data transfer between a user's browser and a website.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)? |url=https://www.techtarget.com/searchsoftwarequality/definition/HTTPS |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=SearchSoftwareQuality |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808115342/https://www.techtarget.com/searchsoftwarequality/definition/HTTPS |url-status=live }}</ref>