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At some point, for everyday users, the amount of friction and bright red will just mean that they move on to another site. What popular site isn't using HTTPS?
by krinchan 5y ago
At some point, for everyday users, the amount of friction and bright red will just mean that they move on to another site. What popular site isn't using HTTPS?
But I'm not even talking about desktop browsers, here. It'll start with mobile devices. iOS and Android going HTTPS only with their default browsers is entirely within the realm of reason. Flash was functionally dead once Android gave up on it within a few years. Yes, there was a long tail of enterprise users and people who refused to give it up.
Similarly, there will be a very long tail of HTTP. But Apple and Google are in a position to kill it just like they did Flash.
- necovek 5y agoI am not so sure of the "everyday users": we are all conditioned to click through a bunch of "warnings" (cookie consent anyone?), that you'd really have to make it bordering on unusable for people to not simply click-through. Even with mobile devices, I imagine another cycle is coming where people care more about what their seemigly-general-purpose computers restrict them from doing. But I'd still wager that it ain't happening in the next 3 years.