That's true, but I think at some point HTTP should go away. The deprecation should happen. I think we need to get to state where HTTPS is HTTP and there is no "

That's true, but I think at some point HTTP should go away. The deprecation should happen. I think we need to get to state where HTTPS is HTTP and there is no "HTTPS" at all. Everyone can easily get a free certificate, and for commercial they can spend hundreds if they want to "prove" more. Like I said in another comment, I don't see a problem with sharing cat photos over HTTP. But if possible, https is definitely not going to hurt. But given most sites are HTTP, yes, probably going to hurt ranking. Old websites running on old CMS won't be able upgrade much. Simiarily, no one should be running FTP. It should SFTP, but setting up SFTP is pain in the ass with chroot and all that. Technology really need to made simpler. Speaking from an ops standpoint.