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Re:The next Google by smitty1e on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:20PM (#30927749)
> This. People don't realize that the early web was elitist. Now, the entire population is online.

That's an excellent demographic point.

A counter-argument is that the move from port 80 to port 443 is the elitist drift. Instead of innocently putting information out there and sharing in an egalitarian fashion, we now have certificates and gatekeepers and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

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Re:The next Google by quintushoratius on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:07PM (#30928035)
In an age of free SSL/TLS certificates, and built-in support in pretty much anything, is this really true? Making your content available via port 443 really isn't impeding anything at all.
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Re:The next Google by smitty1e on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @01:21PM (#30934974)
Except that there is now massive additional complexity that is both fragile and tricky.
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