> HTTPS is used to prevent intruders from being able to listen to communications between you and websites you visit, as well as to avoid data being modified wit

> HTTPS is used to prevent intruders from being able to listen to communications between you and websites you visit, as well as to avoid data being modified without your knowledge. Exactly. This is a privacy concern. Anyone with the ability to sniff connections should not know what I'm downloading (although it may be possible to do package size, and also it might be possible to tell what I'm updating just based on when I update and when was the last time I updated and seeing which packages updated in between those times).