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by nailer 3933 days ago
> But a Padlock in my browser is something I trust.

On the padlock note, Microsoft Edge shows a hollowed out, grey padlock for DV certificates.

Only EV certs get a full green one (as well as the legal name as other browsers show for EV). See https://certsimple.com/blog/dv-ssl-in-microsoft-edge

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> Microsoft Edge shows a hollowed out, grey padlock for DV certificates.

Firefox does the same. Luckily, Chrome is unlikely to do the same, since google.com itself is "only" domain validated.

Now we just need to add a big red icon for http sites...
Mozilla actually have announced their plans to deprecate plain HTTP: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non...