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Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google by sd8dgf8ds8g8dsg on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @07:56AM (#15292708)
www.google.com uses encryption too these days.

You are linking to a ~5 year old thread that is discussing the state of things well before google switched everything over to ssl.

Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google by thisacctforreal on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:00AM (#15294462)
For a while I believe the difference was specifically that encrypted.google.com exclusively used PFS SSL cipher suites