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I watched your video and you made some great points. As an aside, I have to wonder if you've thought through your desire to serve your website over HTTP instea
by thefifthsetpin 8y ago
I watched your video and you made some great points.
As an aside, I have to wonder if you've thought through your desire to serve your website over HTTP instead of over HTTPS.
You noted that you use ad blocking software because ad networks are a common route by which malware propagates. HTTP websites comprise another salient target for malware. If I am at a coffee shop with a compromised wifi router and I load your HTTP website, that compromised router can inject malware into your page and my browser will run it, just like it would have run malware served by an ad server. If your website were served over HTTPS, the router wouldn't have been able to do that.
I imagine you knew all of that, and you're right that HTTPS does have some problems, but trying to avoid those problems by opting for HTTP is exchanging those problems for (imho) much bigger problems.
- arcbyte 8y agoSometimes HTTPS makes sense and sometimes HTTP makes sense. HTTPS everywhere NEVER makes sense.
- confounded 8y agoWhy?
- ldng 8y agoIt will break the decentralised Internet ?
- paulie_a 8y agoIt's 2018. Https absolutely makes sense in all circumstances... everywhere for everything. Http should not even be considered as an option.
- Applejinx 8y agoIt's simpler than that. I'm hosting websites on Hostgator, my income is that Patreon I mention in the video, and though I have a little knowledge on webmastering it's not much compared to what I make content for. I don't know how, and I'm seeing high prices for getting HTTPSed up, though I have a mental note that using Cloudflare might be a way to do it. That said, a service like that seems like it would cost a bunch of money too. I think I can't afford to use HTTPS, and I think this may be a feature not a bug to some people out there controlling things. I could well be wrong. I'm hoping for the reasons you mention that some benevolent hacker people work out how to bring this to people for free and make it simple to do.