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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:04PM (#27898560)
> because literally no one I know younger than 40 even knows what FTP is, let alone having used it.

How many of them know what TLS is? Yet they've probably used it. With computers, you don't need to know what something is to have used it.

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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by TheRealPomax on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:20PM (#27899524)
Sure, they also use C6H12O6 every day, and interbank networks, but if we listed everything that wasn't similar to FTP we'd be here a while. FTP is "a thing" you intentionally use. You connect to FTP servers, and upload or download files, in the same way that HTTP is a thing you intentionally use to consumer web pages. TLS it just an aspect of how connections are negotiated and is on a completely different rung of the ladder of abstraction.
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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:36PM (#27900189)
> in the same way that HTTP is a thing you intentionally use to consumer web pages.

Nope. I just clicky the link.

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