Comment by dsleno

I don't think pushed hard enough for the adoption of TLS. It's only finally THIS YEAR that they made available their ubiquitous AdSense code for SSL/TSL. Because many websites derive their full livelihood from AdSense, Google has effectively been stalling the widespread adoption of SSL on the web. If you were a news website and you used AdSense, then forget about ever implementing SSL; it would kill our site.

Although I'm glad they have finally started serving AdSense in SSL, Google need to take ownership in their big role in keeping the internet unencrypted. If they have had a had a change of heart, that's great. But I don't trust them any more.