The web is intrinsically a patch job, continually worsening year after year. Encryption solves more than just a MiTM attack, and I always thought it was to avoi

The web is intrinsically a patch job, continually worsening year after year. Encryption solves more than just a MiTM attack, and I always thought it was to avoid snooping from bad actors, but realistically, if a bad actor is in a position where they can MiTM, you are fucked. Network snooping is largely eliminated however thanks to the way that public key encryption (aka what SSL is) works. The entirety of the web relies of the security of the few for the security of the many, and there's nothing you can do about it, and if you dont like it, that's a shame, nothing is going to compel google or microsoft to change anything.