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Google Wants to Remove FTP From Chrome. Would You Even Care?
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Quote:Google has wanted to remove FTP from Chrome for years, and Chrome developers are taking a new step towards that goal. After all, FTP is an old, unencrypted protocol. We should have stopped using it years ago.

As Lawrence Abrams over at Bleeping Computer points out, an upcoming change means Chrome will soon download resources like images and PDF files from FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites rather than displaying them in Chrome itself. However, Chrome will still display a list of each FTP folder’s contents in the browser.

This is all part of Google’s long-term goal to eventually get rid of FTP support. Mozilla has the same goal. FTP support is an old protocol. Like HTTP, it’s unencrypted. With the Internet moving towards encrypted HTTPS, we should also be moving away from FTP. The lack of encryption means people could snoop on FTP traffic or perform a man-in-the-middle attack to modify files sent over FTP.

Personally, I’d hate to see FTP support removed immediately. So many PC manufacturers host driver installers and firmware updates on FTP sites. Removing FTP support from Chrome means I’d have to use a separate FTP client to download them, and that would be annoying.
Full reading: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/google-wan...even-care/
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