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07-16-2014, 04:00 AM
HTTPS YouTube Streams
Most Google services use HTTPS and Google wants to switch the entire Web (https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/84d2d68d-a2bc-e311-b297-00155d5066d7) to HTTPS. YouTube uses encrypted connections for signed-in users and even video streams use SSL. You can check this by right-clicking a video, selecting "Stats for nerds" and reading the "stream type" value for the HTML5 player or the third line for the Flash player.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GY29-vJW3tc/U7w0g1657uI/AAAAAAAB-UM/ID1UTuIg4ck/s1600/youtube-https-stream.png
More than 6 billion hours of video (https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html) are watched each month on YouTube. A study from 2013 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/video-accounts-53-percent-internet-655203) concluded that YouTube video streaming accounted for more than 18 percent of all downstream traffic in **rth America.
5 years ago, SSL was mostly used for online banking and logging in to various sites. Few online services offered HTTPS as an option and one of them was Gmail (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/force-gmail-to-use-secure-connection.html) back in 2008. HTTPS access for Gmail was enabled by default in 2010 (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/01/gmails-https-access-is-enabled-by.html). Google released Secure Search (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-secure-search.html) in 2010 and made it the default option (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/09/google-encrypted-search-for-everyone.html) last year.
While protecting against man-in-the-middle attacks makes sense, what's the point of delivering hundreds of megabytes of publicly available videos though HTTPS? Privacy is a good reason. Traffic is encrypted, it can't easily be decoded by third parties between your computer and Google's servers.
Back in 2009, Microsoft didn't use SSL (http://ask-leo.com/why_is_there_**_*******_live_hotmail_https_connect ion.html) by default for logging in and **w YouTube uses SSL to stream videos.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleOperatingSystem/~4/f78hBpj7Rug
Most Google services use HTTPS and Google wants to switch the entire Web (https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/84d2d68d-a2bc-e311-b297-00155d5066d7) to HTTPS. YouTube uses encrypted connections for signed-in users and even video streams use SSL. You can check this by right-clicking a video, selecting "Stats for nerds" and reading the "stream type" value for the HTML5 player or the third line for the Flash player.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GY29-vJW3tc/U7w0g1657uI/AAAAAAAB-UM/ID1UTuIg4ck/s1600/youtube-https-stream.png
More than 6 billion hours of video (https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html) are watched each month on YouTube. A study from 2013 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/video-accounts-53-percent-internet-655203) concluded that YouTube video streaming accounted for more than 18 percent of all downstream traffic in **rth America.
5 years ago, SSL was mostly used for online banking and logging in to various sites. Few online services offered HTTPS as an option and one of them was Gmail (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/force-gmail-to-use-secure-connection.html) back in 2008. HTTPS access for Gmail was enabled by default in 2010 (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/01/gmails-https-access-is-enabled-by.html). Google released Secure Search (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-secure-search.html) in 2010 and made it the default option (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/09/google-encrypted-search-for-everyone.html) last year.
While protecting against man-in-the-middle attacks makes sense, what's the point of delivering hundreds of megabytes of publicly available videos though HTTPS? Privacy is a good reason. Traffic is encrypted, it can't easily be decoded by third parties between your computer and Google's servers.
Back in 2009, Microsoft didn't use SSL (http://ask-leo.com/why_is_there_**_*******_live_hotmail_https_connect ion.html) by default for logging in and **w YouTube uses SSL to stream videos.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleOperatingSystem/~4/f78hBpj7Rug