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[–]Robin[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Some people get afraid if the padlock doesn't appear. Moreover, aren't browsers going to start blocking non http:// sites

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The great thing is you can always find a browser to go to a http only site.

Have a cert issue, fail to pay for your certs, or fail to hire an extra sysadmin to manage your site certs, fail to have the best encryption of a cert, even if free from let's encrypt, it is an extra cost. And when any of the above break, your site fails to load on almost all browsers.

Https is great for some things, Dealing with pii and payment information. Other than this, i think the https everywhere thing is a money laundering scheme and it's also a way to increase barriers to entry for information, specifically for smaller businesses or websites by large controlling internet corporations.

And yes, ppl do get afraid because most of the browsers now have capitulated for the money and because they hate their end users. They throw up scary warning pages and red web address bars when Mary tries to read a website on how to make a perfect peach pie.

https is the commercialization of the web, by it's very nature. It's the web for millennials. Please payme. Everybody needs to eat. Which is antithetical to what the web was designed for, which was sharing.

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Also, when the Carrington event occurs, or when GPS goes out or there is a general event/issue with time, you can still get to all that information that's still available on simple http. Once you have a timing issue, hello walled garden of data for everything https. (Paranoia for all the preppers out there)

[–]Drewski 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To be fair, if you're really concerned about information being lost you should be backing it up locally anyways.