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Dear overlord, stop this shit. Don't force any web user over your agenda BS. Amazon.com worked fine from 1995 to 2016 with HTTP (only the login page was HTTPS)
by frik 9y ago
Dear overlord, stop this shit. Don't force any web user over your agenda BS.
Amazon.com worked fine from 1995 to 2016 with HTTP (only the login page was HTTPS).
If you have a crappy ISP like Verizon or whatever, it's your own personal problem - 99% of the web user don't care about your problem. Maybe use a VPN to somewhere to an ISP you can trust.
I stopped using Firefox because they turned mad. Chromium with some custom patches seems like a far better solution nowadays. Yet I see Google is too trying to destroy the open web with their PWA/AMP monoculture that is favored and listed on top of search results.
We need the EFF and other "good" foundations to lobby for the end user - too many shady and corporate entities lobby against the end user, unfortunately.
- mLuby 9y agoThere's often no ISP choice available. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-broadband-still-no-isp-choice-for-many-especially-at-higher-speeds/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...
- schoen 9y agoI work for EFF and we have actively lobbied for sites, including Amazon, to adopt HTTPS by default for years. Even if you have some way to verify and be confident in your ISP's privacy practices, your data is going to pass through a lot of different ISPs' facilities, and you're not going to have any control of that.