Privacy Power-Up: Upgrading Pin Links from HTTP to HTTPS

1 · Pinterest · Nov. 19, 2019, 1:01 p.m.
Summary
Maria de Angelis | Summer 2019 Pinterest Engineer InternHTTPS should be everywhere. Your website likely runs over HTTPS, giving your users a secure, encrypted connection, but what about all the outbound links? Can you guarantee that they all use HTTPS? In this post, we describe the steps we took to upgrade Pin links from HTTP to HTTPS by leveraging DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption technology.Why HTTPS?While Pinterest runs entirely on HTTPS, it’s not the final destination for most users. As a plac...