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Re:Why HTTPS for Everything? by philplckthun on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:14PM (#13305603)
This is really sad and disturbing to read. Especially the ad networks side of things. But I really hope that people like you pressure these advertisers into providing HTTPS. It's not this "hip new web tech".

It's an established standard and now completely free to set up (thanks to Let's Encrypt ;)). I don't see how these two (yes, frankly, two reasons. let's really ignore the third one) can keep anyone from providing HTTPS connections to their dear readers and users.

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Re:Why HTTPS for Everything? by majewsky on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @08:56AM (#13309132)
> now completely free to set up (thanks to Let's Encrypt)

To be fair, I would expect any reasonably large company to obtain an EV (Extended Verification) certificate, which is very much not free. Let's Encrypt only does DV (Domain Verification). EV includes verification that you're actually the incorporated company that you're telling everyone you are.

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