6 Ways to Overcome Your Connection Is Not Private (100% Work)

How to solve your connection is not private on a Windows or Android laptop / PC. Can be applied on google chrome, mozilla, opera etc.

Have you ever been engrossed in surfing the internet to get a warning Your Connection is Not Private or Your Connection is Not Secure on the website you are visiting? The warning may appear due to various factors.

There are many reasons that trigger this warning. One of them is the time or date on the PC that does not match the actual time.

The discrepancy between the time and date on your PC with the time and date you accessed could be the main factor that causes warnings to appear on the website.

How to Overcome Your Connection Is Not Private

To overcome this, this article provides several ways or solutions that you can follow. Immediately, please follow some of the methods below.

1. Invalid Time and Date

The first cause of the website ‘your connection is not private’ is the time and date settings on your PC or laptop that do not match the time and date when accessing. For example, you access the internet on January 10, 2021, but the time and date on your PC or laptop are set as November 12, 2021.

The discrepancy between the time and date can cause the browser to verify the SSL certificate on the site you visit. To work around this, follow these steps:

1. First, please open the time and date settings on your PC or laptop by clicking right on the clock in the lower-right corner of your PC. As in the image below.

2. Then, please click Adjust date/time as shown in the image below.

3. Then, please change the time and date according to the actual time and date. You can also choose to have the time and date set automatically so that the time and date are always displayed from current data. As in the image below.

4. In addition, you can also change the time and date of passing Settings or settings.

5. Please open Settings, then please click Time & Language. As in the image below.

6. Then, please you set time and date on your PC or laptop.

2. Extension Problem

The next problem could be that your browser extension is having problems. To detect whether your extension is the problem or not, you can check it through the incognito browser. If the website you are opening does not appear warning Your Connection is Not Private and can be opened, then the problem may be with the browser extension that you installed.

Some browser extensions can interfere with SSL certificate verification. Then you need to disable the problematic extension temporarily so you can open the website you want. How to? Follow the steps below.

1. First, please open your web browser.

2. Then, please click three dots icon in the upper right corner, as shown in the image below.

3. Then, please click More Tools then click Extensions. As in the image below.

4. For example, the extension that has the problem with your browser is the Adblock extension. So, you can disable it temporarily by clicking the toggle in the red box as below until it changes from blue to Gray.

3. Antivirus is Too Sensitive

If you’ve changed the time and date, and disabled extensions but the website you’re trying to visit is getting a Your Connection is Not Private warning, it could be that the problem is with the antivirus you’re using.

The use of an antivirus that is too protective in securing an internet connection can also cause a Your Connection is Not Private warning on the website you want to view. To fix this, you can change the anti-virus settings and turn off the https scan feature. If the antivirus you are using does not have the option to turn off this feature, you can temporarily disable it and try visiting the previously blocked sites.

4. Browsing Data Too Much

When you surf the internet, your browser will store various data in the form of history, download history, cookies, cache, and so on. If you have too much browsing data, you might get a warning Your Connection is Not Private. For that you need to clean the browsing data. Here are the steps to remove it:

1. First, please open a web browser on your PC or laptop.

2. Then, please click three dots icon in the top right corner of your browser. As in the image below.

3. Then, please click More tools then click Clear browsing data. As in the image below.

4. Then, please delete the browsing data you want or you can select all of them at once. Then, please click Clear data.

5. Website SSL Expired

If some of the methods above don’t work, it’s possible that the SSL of the website you want to visit is not valid or has expired. This could be because the website owner is not aware that the SSL website is invalid. If that’s the case, you can check the website’s SSL certificate validation yourself using the steps below:

1. Please open the website you want to visit.

2. Then, please click lock icon in the left corner of the web page. As in the image below.

3. Then, please have a look at the section Certificate whether valid or not. As in the image below.

So this article discusses how to overcome the Your Connection Is Not Private writing that appears on the website.

Actually, even if you don’t run the methods above, you can still open the website by pressing the “I understand the risk and wish to continue“. As long as you have to be absolutely sure that the website you are visiting is safe. Hopefully this article can be useful and help you. Thank you

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