The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that it plans to put its HTTPS Everywhere browser extension into maintenance mode beginning in 2022 due to the dramatic rise in website encryption in the ten years since it introduced the addon.
Plus, with the release of Chrome 94, all major browsers now have a built-in HTTPS Everywhere-like feature that can be enabled.
The goal of HTTPS Everywhere was always to become redundant. That would mean we’d achieved our larger goal: a world where HTTPS is so broadly available and accessible that users no longer need an extra browser extension to get it. Now that world is closer than ever, with mainstream browsers offering native support for an HTTPS-only mode.
Indeed, the rise of ubiquitous encryption is one of the good news stories of the last decade that was primarily the direct result of Edward Snowden’s revelations.