Visitors to my blog experiencing security pop ups

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  jsthomae · Member · Feb 19, 2015 at 10:19 pm

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  My friend visits my blog several times a week. this is what she’s experiencing:
  “I am getting pop up messages on your blog saying that it is not safe; and also in facebook when I click on your link, I get a request for a security check. I’m not getting these with anything else. If it’s my bug, I sure am sorry.”
  I had another visitor tell me she as having problems too.
  (I am a Mac user)
  Thank you, Jody Thomae

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

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 20, 2015 at 12:16 am

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  Hi Jody,

  I believe this is an http issue. That is actually very standard behavior and is a bit misguided (sorry about the scare!). 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:// jodythomae.com and not https://jodythomae.com.

  You can read more about this here.

  Let me know if you have any questions with this.

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  jsthomae · Member · Feb 20, 2015 at 2:27 pm

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  Thank you Grace! :)
  I am posting http:// and not https. :/
  I’ll check into the read more about it link you’ve shared and let you know if I figure anything out.
  THanks, Jody