How do I remove the request for certificate? Visitor to my site reporting problems

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  mariekazalia · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 5:22 pm

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  How do I remove the request for certificate when reader tries to visit my site? I posted a video to my site this morning. A regular reader is now being asked for a valid certificate over and over or told that I don’t have a valid certificate.(her comment posted below)

  Please note: Somehow this “certificate” problem may be related to a site I visited recently:
  pitchus.com @pitchuslimited FOLLOWS YOU Global Online Marketplace | Create Your Video Sales Channel | List & Sell Products, Items & Goods, Promote Business & Events – Using Video Clips | April 2015
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  https://pitchus.com/profile upload videos

  I noted this issue with Certificates on the PitchUS site (or perhaps another site).

  Reader comment:
  “Marie, Firefox is putting up  layers of warnings when I try to post a comment on your blog. Haven’t seen this before when i have posted in the past, so you might want to figure out  how to circumvent  the invalid safety certificate warning.
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  (end of her comment)

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Jan 27, 2015 at 12:57 am

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  Hi there,

  That is actually very standard behavior and is a bit misguided. Please note that only you and other registered users of the blog will see it when logged in.

  When you connect to your Dashboard over an HTTPS connection, we use an SSL certificate to encrypt your connection. SSL certificates need to be signed to a specific domain, and we can’t provide certificates for every mapped domain, so our certificate is signed for WordPress.com.

  When you connect to your Dashboard via your own domain but your security software sees a certificate signed to http://wordpress.com/ it’s altering you that WordPress.com may be intercepting your connection, which of course is perfectly fine.

  To prevent your readers running into this in their browsers, just make sure that whenever you provide a link to your blog or post it anywhere, that you post it as http://artistmarketingresources.com and not https://artistmarketingresources.com.

  You can read more about this here.