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funny how this site is not https
by accidentaldev 7y ago
funny how this site is not https
- numlock86 7y agoOther than the increased CO2 footprint what would - in this particular case - be the benefit?
- saagarjha 7y agoThe standard HTTPS benefit of making it impossible for ISPs to inject into and/or modify the page, usually for stupid reasons.
- djsumdog 7y agoThat's the big thing that pushed me to add LetsEncrypt to my blog. I was on some Belgium sim card and the ISP injected some crap via JavaScript at the top of my website. I couldn't even read it; didn't properly detect language/locale, but it looked like some warning about being near my data limit.
- jacquesm 7y agoThat you actually get what the website sent you.
- stjo 7y agoIncreased carbon emissions is interesting side effect of https
- dmarinoc 7y agoWe should ask our governments to ban the use of https and just trust each other (</ironic>, just in case some internet random folk thinks I’m serious)
- bladewolf47 7y agoGenuinely curious, by what proportion does it increase CO2 footprint by? Tried searching online but couldn't find anything.
- Kuinox 7y agoA proxy can't cache the ressources anymore. SSL overhead, CPU used by both parties to do the encryption. But the ISP can't alter the page.
- m0xte 7y agoTLS takes considerably more watts of power on the basis it actually does more work and shuffles more electrons around the CPU. I suppose that loosely converts into carbon footprint. However even if it is an issue, most sites sending 6 meg of JavaScript crap down that gets recompiled on every visitor’s machine, autoplaying videos and advertising would be doing more damage. So if anyone is going to complain they should probably start there...