# my address bar says 'not secure". **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 31, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292 "2020-01-31T14:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/1 "2020-01-31T14:44:42Z")
IDK how long this has been going on. I just noticed it today. Is this something I need to be worried about? Using Chrome if that matters. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/2 "2020-01-31T15:16:57Z")
I know this sort of thing has been addressed before, in threads about the board’s security certificate and http vs https, but I don’t know the technical details. Are you getting here via an old link or bookmark? If you get here a different way (e.g. by typing in the site’s URL) does it still say “not secure”? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/3 "2020-01-31T15:27:21Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I know this sort of thing has been addressed before, in threads about the board’s security certificate and http vs https, but I don’t know the technical details. > > Are you getting here via an old link or bookmark? If you get here a different way (e.g. by typing in the site’s URL) does it still say “not secure”? Thanks. I just type it in manually with https. That did the trick. Still don’t know why my bookmark stopped working though. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/4 "2020-01-31T15:55:30Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > IDK how long this has been going on. I just noticed it today. > > Is this something I need to be worried about? > Using Chrome if that matters. Do you get that just on this site? Or do you get it on other sites too? ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/5 "2020-01-31T16:02:57Z")
Chrome? No wonder. We are a Google Chrome district, and it says that OUR OWN SCHOOL WEB SITE is “not secure”. LOL Try the browser native to your O.S. (Edge?) or Firefox or, if Apple, Safari. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/6 "2020-01-31T16:46:55Z")
It happened about 6 weeks ago.[Here’s the thread from then.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=866806) TLDR: change your bookmark from here [http://boards.straightdope](http://boards.straightdope) (dot) com to here [https://boards.straightdope.com](https://boards.straightdope.com) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/7 "2020-01-31T17:31:02Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > It happened about 6 weeks ago.[Here’s the thread from then.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=866806) > > TLDR: change your bookmark from here [http://boards.straightdope](http://boards.straightdope) (dot) com to here [https://boards.straightdope.com](https://boards.straightdope.com) A _year_ and six weeks ago, unless we’re somehow living 2019 over again (Og forbid!). ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/8 "2020-01-31T17:37:32Z")
Get a browser extension called “HTTPS Everywhere.” It forces https whenever possible. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/9 "2020-01-31T19:48:57Z")
I think this is what’s been happening to me the last couple of days. Every time I pick up my phone to go back to reading the SDMB, I’m logged out. I think somehow I must have connected using an old bookmark from a few weeks ago when the SSL cert had expired and the only way to get to the site was with http. I deleted my old bookmark, typed in the URL with https, and it seems to be working now. New bookmark saved! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-address-bar-says-not-secure/847292/10 "2020-01-31T20:43:43Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > A _year_ and six weeks ago, unless we’re somehow living 2019 over again (Og forbid!). Wrong thread. Time travel is being addressed in [Multiple User IDs or Accts](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=889341).