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they sell market protection. to google. it makes crawlers much more expensive. makes everyone depend on their CDNs etc.

• mardifoufs 2y ago
  Are you referring to google trust services? I don't see how that applies to let's encrypt otherwise.
  • 1oooqooq 2y ago
    go make a cost analysis of crawling the entire internet once or twice a day on http vs https and report back
    • aaomidi 2y ago
      lol are you claiming that https is done to make web crawling more expensive? Wild.
      • 1oooqooq 2y ago
        the most pressing to google at the time was telecom abusing monopoly of mistyped urls to dictate search engine of their choice. but that too.
• aaomidi 2y ago
  I'm deeply confused by this?