Reddit quietly announced on Tuesday that it will soon start to better protect your privacy and security by switching to HTTPS by default starting on June 29. On that day, Reddit will become one of the largest sites on the web to be HTTPS only, joining a burgeoning movement to encrypt the whole web by default.

"We're ready to enforce that everyone use a secure connection with reddit," Reddit's system administrator Ricky Ramirez wrote in a short post on the site's developers subreddit. "HTTP will no longer be available."

"We're ready to enforce that everyone use a secure connection with reddit."

Since last year, Reddit already supported HTTPS, but it wasn't turned on by default, meaning that as a user had to turn on a setting on the site's preferences, type https:// before the address, or have a plugin such as HTTPS Everywhere to force the connection to the site to be encrypted.