The problem with root certificates is there are so many of them installed by default with your operating system.

As of writing this message I currently have over 170 root certificates on my macOS. Some of them are from companies who are known to care very little about your privacy. There's even a "Federal Common Policy" certificate which is actually run by the US government [1]

If the government did MITM you're traffic, it would still show in the certificate chain. But how many people really check this every time they visit a site?

1. https://security.stackexchange.com/a/71174

1. It is a calculated risk to MitM this way, if someone notices the cert is different than what everyone else sees, there would be pretty major blowback.

2. Regardless, Certificate Transparency means it will almost certainly be noticed.

Reverse proxy is part of the MITM. Every sizeable work place in my country has some sort of root certificate installed on every workstation's browsers. They log your traffic and use those root certificates to decrypt your traffic. -1 all you want.

Which you can assume on some I flight Wi-Fi... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/why-y...