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Many people are against HTTP. It's out-dated technology that leaves users vulnerable. 1. There are more effective methods. 2. There are more effective methods
by staunch 11y ago
Many people are against HTTP. It's out-dated technology that leaves users vulnerable.
1. There are more effective methods.
2. There are more effective methods.
3. Not useful for long-tail and no one wants modified videos.
4. The additional overhead is an insignificant cost, even to YouTube.
Your reasons for wanting HTTP are the same reasons YouTube uses HTTPS. They don't want third-party blocking, tracking, interception, or modification. YouTube is doing what their users want by protecting them.
In 2016, any company that doesn't use HTTPS everywhere is probably incompetent.
- detaro 11y ago3. is probably more interesting on the users' end (e.g. a highschool: often slow connection, tons of students all wanting to watch trendy videos). Could be solved with a special solution as well, though.
- ausjke 11y agohttps is quite computation-intensive and it has its additional cost to hardware, by offering http in parallel that might mitigate the pressure a bit when https is unneeded. when content filtering is mandated(corporate, school, church,etc), they're going to do it anyway, just need more powerful router/firewall/proxy in the middle, if http is available it will ease that to a great deal. for people needs security, just use https by default, for people perfers to http sometimes, they will have the optional choice, just like what google.com does now.
- staunch 11y ago1. The additional cost is insignificant thanks to increases in CPU performance. The cost of 60 fps 4K videos is also high, and YouTube does this as well. You're confused about how good companies view costs and benefits. 2. Content filtering can be done in other ways, more effectively. HTTPS does not prevent this. 3. Everyone needs security and privacy. You don't seem interested in learning, so I'm done trying. Keep believing whatever you want while the entire web moves to HTTPS-only for very obvious reasons.