There are several other very important reasons missing from this article, which I think invalidate part of the argument. One is widespread use of open wifi net

There are several other very important reasons missing from this article, which I think invalidate part of the argument. One is widespread use of open wifi networks. I know many people don't bother to redirect traffic through a VPN when on open wifi, which means anyone on the network can monitor their traffic. This might be mostly innocuous, but at the worst, they can steal login credentials and personal info. The second is ad/analytics tracking networks. By using SSL, you force your trackers to be SSL as well. Small comfort for those who despise this anyway, but it's better than these networks moving plain text identifiers and info about you around, allowing it to be monitored as you surf around the web. I believe the third is widespread government surveillance/mass spying. By using SSL you do two things: prevent (or at least complicate) the 3rd party interception of data, and also decrease the signal-to-noise ratio (making it less likely that any given encrypted stream is actually something valuable and worth breaking).