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> But for a lot of sites (like phrasegenerator.com, one of mine) I'm not sure it makes sense An attacker could replace your site with anything: ads, viruses,
by seanwilson 10y ago
> But for a lot of sites (like phrasegenerator.com, one of mine) I'm not sure it makes sense
An attacker could replace your site with anything: ads, viruses, malware, payment prompt. HTTPS also allows you to add HTTP2 support which can lead to faster page loads.
Given that there's a lot of low effort ways to add HTTPS (e.g. Netlify, Cloudflare, Heroku), the question should really be why go with HTTP 1?
- tombrossman 10y agoFor me, the possibility of faster page loads with HTTP/2 is the main selling point, plus the usual TLS advantages of guaranteeing the integrity of page content, etc. Plenty of info on speed out there, here's one example: https://blog.httpwatch.com/2015/01/16/a-simple-performance-comparison-of-https-spdy-and-http2/ https://blog.httpwatch.com/2015/01/16/a-simple-performance-c...