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Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security by deckard1 on Monday January 24, 2022 @01:15AM (#30054213)
years ago I interviewed with a startup that was aiming to put their routers in various locations like airports and coffee shops. They would offer free or cheap internet at those locations. The catch: they were going to swap out ads with their own ads on the fly.

Shortly after that, Google started pushing HTTPS. I never believed that was a coincidence.

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Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security by TedDoesntTalk on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:42AM (#30055326)
The great migration to https, even for read-only self-hosted blogs, has been an amazing disservice to the world. Maybe if we had non-expiring ssl certificates with working OCSP or CRL, I’d have a different opinion.
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