By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
Sometimes you may receive the message such as "your connection is not private" or "NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID" or "ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID" or "NET::ERR_CERT_WEAK_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM” or “SSL certificate error”, and the first step is what you want to do must be relaunched your Google Chrome application. However, it is annoying to show up again. Luckily, you are not alone and we will tell you about 6 methods to repair the privacy error in Google Chrome.
Step 1: Open Chrome, input chrome://flags in the address bar and press Enter.
Step 2: Type Experimental QUIC protocol in the search box and Enter. Locate to the option and click the down arrow at the end of the row, then select Enable from the list.
This method is really straightforward you can do the following fix the error If the date and time in your computer are wrong, this can lead to the private connection in Google Chrome. The reason for the error is that SSL certificate cannot be verified. So it is necessary to set your date and time into correct. Reload the webpage to check if it is work. If not: try another method.
At sometimes, your antivirus software would block all SSL connection and cause the error too. Close it temporarily to see if the website can be load in normally.
Once your Firewall may block the invalid certification and SSL error, open the software and make an exception if you do need to view the website otherwise you'd better not to visit it. Make an exception means to increase the risk of your computer.
Google Chrome allows users to install extensions to personalities their browser as they want. Nevertheless, this can lead to conflict between different processes. So, try to open the webpage in Incognito Window to block all extensions completely. Just simply press Ctrl + Shift + N to open the Incognito Window, input the website address. See whether it can open without error message showing up or not. If webpage opens incorrectly, you can try to disable the extension one by one. If you don't know where to disable extensions, you can refer to this article on how to disable extensions in Google Chrome.
If your cache and cookies of Google Chrome are a long time to clean up, it can lead to the SSL error. Therefore, you can walk through the procedures below to clean it up.
Step 1: At the upper right corner, click on three vertical ellipses.
Step 2: Click on Settings, scroll down and click on Advanced at the bottom of the page.
Step 3: Under Privacy and security section, click on Clearing browsing history.
Step 4: While the window pop-ups, check the box of Cookies and other site data and Caches images and files. Tap on CLEAR DATA button.
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