"Well, that's the choice of these current websites"
Sometimes. For example, there was a pretty organized effort to make plain http websites seem insecure, even if they were just informational sites.
Sometimes. For example, there was a pretty organized effort to make plain http websites seem insecure, even if they were just informational sites.
If you need a protocol for document discovery and retrieval like the old internet and have the cooperation of the sites, then you can simply use basic https without javascript, all the things that Lynx browser can support, all the infrastructure is still there. But you can't force the websites to support that if their operators don't share these goals and values.