Google wants to be able to load slow websites faster in Android in the future and to bypass HTTPS encryption if necessary. Slow, unencrypted pages are already being loaded from the Google cache in order to significantly shorten the waiting time. This is now also the case for HTTPS pages – if the user activates the data saving mode.
In data-saving mode, Google takes over the delivery of the page as a proxy cache and ensures a simplified, data-saving display. According to Google, the data load can be reduced by up to 90 percent. This function is by no means new: „Opera Mini“ already offered such a mode. Chrome has also been equipped with this function for some time. Now, however, it is to be used for the first time for encrypted pages, which is probably due to the fact that the proportion of unencrypted pages is now negligibly low. The problem is that the browser helps to bypass the encryption of the website. So it’s quite a delicate issue from a data protection point of view.
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