Why did Google declare war on HTTP? (2016)

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• 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago
  Do search engines redirect to HTTPS in 2026

  As a TLS forward proxy user who automatically redirects all HTTP to HTTPS using the proxy, I am not inclined to pay attention

  But I would have guessed "Yes, they do"

  As it happens, some now are accepting HTTP connections

  For example, Google, Bing, DDG

  Others still redirect to HTTPS

  For example, Yandex, Brave

  Pardon the ignorance but when did this change

  Is there an obvious reason

     req()
     {
     printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: '$1'\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n' \
     |nc -vv $1 80
     }
     
     req www.google.com 
     req www.bing.com 
     req lite.duckduckgo.com
     req search.brave.com
     req yandex.com