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Re:MitM Attack against KeePass 2’s Update Check by eightysix_four on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @05:09PM (#11818174)
> I'm sure it's possible to serve adverts on a HTTPS page

Yes, you can, but you lose a tremendous amount of ad revenue and a number of ad providers still don't support HTTPS.

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Re:MitM Attack against KeePass 2’s Update Check by AjithAntony on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @05:18PM (#11818241)
Is this becuase all the third party assets and scripts would need to be HTTPS as well? If they weren't then you get that browser warning about mixed content?
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