meh. the reason i like HTTPS is it makes it difficult for unscrupulous ISPs to insert ads and code into my pages. and yeah. bad guys inserting nefarious cookies

meh. the reason i like HTTPS is it makes it difficult for unscrupulous ISPs to insert ads and code into my pages. and yeah. bad guys inserting nefarious cookies as well. it's great the poster hasn't had to deal with such problems, and they're certainly not universal. but they're common enough to just do HTTPS and not worry about it. also... https is adding half a second to load times? pretty sure this is what QUIC and HTTP/3 were designed for. or move your content to akamai or cloudfront or cloudflare or whatever CDN you're comfortable with.