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October 14, 2021

HTTP/3 Adoption is Driving Huge Gains for Microsoft

Mat Ford

Technology Insights

Categories: Technology

One of the ‘enabling’ technologies that we track on Internet Society Pulse is the latest version of the protocol that underpins the web, namely HTTP/3. In addition to powering the web, HTTP is increasingly used to transfer data between Internet-connected devices of all kinds. In a recent Technical community update, Nick Banks highlighted the huge […]

October 5, 2021

HTTPS is (Almost) Everywhere So Goodbye HTTPS Everywhere!

Mat Ford

Technology Insights

Categories: Technology

The latest development in the HTTPS deployment success story has seen the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) declare “Victory!” and move on. EFF have announced that because HTTPS is actually everywhere, the HTTPS Everywhere browser plug-in is no longer needed and they are preparing for its deprecation. After the end of this year, the browser extension […]

October 4, 2021

Welcome Cloudflare, OONI and W3Techs

Susannah Gray

Communications Wrangler

Categories: Pulse News

The Internet Society Pulse platform provides curated insights into the overall health, availability, and evolution of the Internet. This quarter, we’re excited to announce that we have three new Data Partners – Cloudflare, OONI and W3Techs. Cloudflare: Bolstering Internet Shutdowns Data To help everyone gain deeper, data-driven insight into the Internet, we need to present […]