Thanks Will. So presumably if Google were to offer an https version of the ad code, that would solve the problem for a lot of sites that use their code. So... our efforts should be directed at getting Google to do so! It's strange because everything else on Google appears to be all-https already...
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Will Rico <[email protected]> wrote: > This does appear to be a Google issue. See this 'help' page from Google > AdSense: > http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10528 > > Will > > On 11/21/2012 09:39 AM, Ramana Kumar wrote: > > Does this response (below) make sense technically? > I have my doubts. > > If it doesn't then I invite others on list to join me in putting some > pressure on OkCupid, starting with just showing them how to deploy https > and keep their ads. > > (If it does, then, depending on the details, perhaps that pressure should > be directed at Google instead, to allow their ads to be embedded in sites > served over https.) > > I am also trying to get doodle.com to serve only https. They have > completely ignored me so far. Some more voices could be helpful. > I know I can use https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/ instead, which is > better on a number of fronts, when I initiate the poll, but people still > send me doodle polls every so often. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alice Goguen <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:38 PM > Subject: Re: [BugProgramming] https (xrchz) > To: [email protected] > > > Hi, > Thanks for your message. We can't offer https on the entire site because > it would also prevent our ads from Google Ads from being served. Our > developers are aware of the issue and would like to offer it when possible. > Thanks, > Alice > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:50 AM, OkCupid User Feedback < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Could you please enable https everywhere? Or tell me what is your reason >> for selectively enabling https on only some portions of the site? >> >> I use a Javascript blocker which doesn't allow scripts on non-secure >> sites. I've whitelisted okcupid.com, but it keeps apparently randomly >> switching back and forth between https and http, and then breaks on the >> http since it's so heavily Javascript-based. (I had to switch to an >> untrusted one-off browser just to submit this bug report.) >> >> I persist in demanding https despite it breaking sites like yours (though >> note it doesn't break bigger sites like Google or Wikipedia) because I want >> a better web. Some of the reasons are spelled out here: >> https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/deploying-https. >> >> USER FACTS: >> ----------- >> User ID: 1134385026156797037 >> Username: xrchz >> > > > >
