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Aside from helping mitigate MiTM, https has other benefits - Faster due to that fact HTTP/2 can be used. - Makes censorship harder as individual pages cannot
by beermonster 6y ago
Aside from helping mitigate MiTM, https has other benefits
- Faster due to that fact HTTP/2 can be used.
- Makes censorship harder as individual pages cannot be censored but rather the entire site which is more noticeable
- Stops ISPs injecting content/tracking
- Stops transparent proxies injecting content/tracking
- Helps with page ranking as search engines prefer sites which load faster and offer improved security
- Mixed content is a bit of a headache, with external resources such as JavaScript being loaded and leading to browser warnings.
- alanfranz 6y agoYes, these are a lot of valid reasons. My point is that the GP did NOT threatmodel, and instead claimed a vague "I want HTTPS". HTTPS is so easy to do now (and, hey, the manifesto page offers an https version indeed, it's just not HSTS enabled) that there're few reasons not to use it. But still: you should threat model.