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Re:Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without by tialaramex on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:04PM (#24127930)
This only helps you at all against passive adversaries.

An active adversary will just cheerfully block that HTTPS connection because you'll fall back to insecure silently.

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Re:Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without by mehrdadn on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:07PM (#24127937)
I fully understand that and that's still clearly still better than going straight to HTTP, which it's already doing.
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