Yes, this is something I hear from my colleagues in the USA (I haven't seen it in Europe yet, it's unthinkable for me). Note that in this case you can perfectly

Yes, this is something I hear from my colleagues in the USA (I haven't seen it in Europe yet, it's unthinkable for me). Note that in this case you can perfectly use HTTPS. What we are talking is the situation where the website owner redirects HTTP to HTTPS (and in this case the ISP sees at least the initial article address anyway).