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Once ISPs got into the games of content injection and selling log data, HTTPS for even simple blogs became more of a necessity. It's not a good thing to have y
by jstarfish 8y ago
Once ISPs got into the games of content injection and selling log data, HTTPS for even simple blogs became more of a necessity.
It's not a good thing to have your entire web usage history recordable and attributable to you anyway. What requests were made should only be between you and the site in question.
When your spouse dies under suspicious circumstances, you don't want that one time you were idly curious about corpse disposal to be discoverable.
- rtkwe 8y ago> It's not a good thing to have your entire web usage history recordable and attributable to you anyway. What requests were made should only be between you and the site in question. That I agree with but we're talking about people who have very marginal access to the internet already like the article is talking about where the benefits of allowing local caching while maintaining content security is a huge boon compared to the possibility of some tracking.
- Spivak 8y agoIf those were the only two options I would agree with you. But you can intercept and cache TLS with your own CA so we can have our cake and eat it too.