# What does HTTPS upgrades mean?

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**Category:** Desktop Support\
**Created:** [August 13, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-does-https-upgrades-mean/75518 "2019-08-13T17:55:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![moses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@moses](https://community.brave.app/u/moses)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-does-https-upgrades-mean/75518/1 "2019-08-13T17:55:40Z")

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Does Brave upgrade sites to https, or what does Https Upgrade mean?

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**Author:** ![eljuno](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/eljuno/32/150436_2.png) [@eljuno](https://community.brave.app/u/eljuno)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-does-https-upgrades-mean/75518/2 "2019-08-13T21:19:10Z")

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@moses from [https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022806212-How-do-I-use-Shields-while-browsing-](https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022806212-How-do-I-use-Shields-while-browsing-)

> ### Connections Encrypted
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> This upgrades connections from HTTP to HTTPS based on [HTTPS Everywhere](https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere)’s rules. When enabled, Brave will use an encrypted connection on every site we know supports it. The number on the left shows how many individual connections were upgraded by these rules.

More [https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001053072-Shields](https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001053072-Shields)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-does-https-upgrades-mean/75518/3 "2019-10-12T21:20:12Z")

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