Since 2008, 'Blogger' worked to encrypt the connections between our users and Google servers. Over the years 'Blogger' announced that Search, Gmail, Drive, and many other products have encrypted connections by default, and most recently, 'Blogger' made a similar announcement for Google ads products.
In this same vein, today 'Blogger' expanding on the HTTPS Everywhere mission and beginning an initial rollout of HTTPS support for Blogspot. HTTPS is a cornerstone of internet security as it provides several important benefits: it makes it harder for bad actors to steal information or track the activities of blog authors and visitors, it helps check that visitors open the correct website and aren’t being redirected to a malicious location, and it helps detect if a bad actor tries to change any data sent from Blogger to a blog visitor.
While this initial rollout won’t support all of our Blogger users, 'Blogger' wanted to take the first step to make HTTPS available for Blogspot; for those users who want to try it early.
'Blogger' rolling this out gradually and Blogspot authors interested in enabling HTTPS support can begin opting-in today. Simply log into https://www.blogger.com, click on the blog you’d like to make HTTPS enabled, navigate to the Settings page, and select "yes" for "HTTPS Availability". Unfortunately, blogs with custom domains are not supported in this first version.
