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Re:HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds by QuadrupleA on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:10PM (#13245823)
So should we all browse through a Tor relay when we're looking at cat pictures? Maybe a new protocol can be invented that allows websites to force us to use one? I tend to dislike these dogmatic rules - you have to be aware of the particulars of your situation and design a solution that fits that. For a lot of sites HTTPS seems to me like overkill. If the environment changes where ISPs are routinely injecting ads etc. into your content streams maybe always-HTTPS will make sense, but the cases of that at this point in time seem relatively rare, not worth wrapping the entire internet in an unneeded software layer.
Re:HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds by ecnahc515 on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:41PM (#13246008)
Actually, yes. Most tor users would be greatful if you used tor to browse cat pics, as it strengthens the entire network by having more people using it.
Re:HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds by derf_ on Friday December 23, 2016 @03:49PM (#13247163)
> but the cases of that at this point in time seem relatively rare

What, like the largest US mobile carrier injecting supercookie tracking headers into every unencrypted HTTP request? [1]

Yeah, I guess that's only 144 million people.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh