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> Have you been completely asleep at the wheel over the past 20 years as ISPs around the world have started injecting ads in people's unencrypted HTTP traffic?
by the8472 3y ago
> Have you been completely asleep at the wheel over the past 20 years as ISPs around the world have started injecting ads in people's unencrypted HTTP traffic?
ISPs are in my local jurisdiction, under regulators I may have voted for and I have a contract which them which I could get checked by courts if it's important enough to me. And I've voted with my feet by switching to a different ISP when the previous one did even a hint of nefarious DNS things (they never injected something into HTTP ftws, "merely" NXDOMAIN hijacking).
I can't say the same about google, cloudflare, let's encrypt and so on.
Trading a cacophony of some local good and bad ISPs to a quite US-centric dubious companies is hardly an improvement.
Also, it's a general sign that things are in a low-trust equilibrium when all this extra complexity is needed. HTTP is perfectly fine if you live in a nicer pocket.