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Great that they've settled on a business model, but I feel like if you are going to have a free tier that HTTPS should be part of it.

kondro 13y ago
Authentication is already SSL.
arrrg 13y ago
Why exactly is that? By far most people do not care at all that other people are (theoretically) able to see what they are reading. I certainly don’t at all. I do not think HTTPS is in any way a required feature for a feedreader. It’s pretty perfect as a premium feature.
- thisishugo 13y ago
  There are plenty of reasons to prefer secure browsing by default. Perhaps I subscribe to feeds that would be flagged as "suspect" by programs like PRISM[1] and XKeyscore[2], and would like to make the NSA work at least a little bit to find that out. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
  - pionar 13y ago
    So, then if it's that important to you, give the people giving you the cover of HTTPS some money, stop being a cheapskate.
    - thisishugo 13y ago
      It so happens that I consider HTTPS by default for all users a requirement. A problem which a pro subscription does not solve.
  - deong 13y ago
    And you can pay for that feature. I have no real stake in the game here, but I'm failing to see why that is a must-have feature for every user of the service.
    - thisishugo 13y ago
      Feasibly, the lack of HTTPS for a subset of users could be used as an attack vector against Feedly, which could surface information about me that I do not want revealed even if I were a Pro user using HTTPS.
- siddboots 13y ago
  Personally, think we should encourage an ecosystem where https is a given, rather than feature. I would prefer that companies saw this as part-and-parcel with being a responsible service provider. FWIW, I'm a big fan of Feedly, and have upgraded to Pro.
  - briandear 13y ago
    Let's tell Heroku to stop charging for the SSL endpoint.
- cenhyperion 13y ago
  Security shouldn't be a premium.
  - arrrg 13y ago
    Huh? Isn’t this about privacy, not security?

kondro 13y ago

Authentication is already SSL.

arrrg 13y ago

Why exactly is that? By far most people do not care at all that other people are (theoretically) able to see what they are reading. I certainly don’t at all. I do not think HTTPS is in any way a required feature for a feedreader. It’s pretty perfect as a premium feature.

thisishugo 13y ago
There are plenty of reasons to prefer secure browsing by default. Perhaps I subscribe to feeds that would be flagged as "suspect" by programs like PRISM[1] and XKeyscore[2], and would like to make the NSA work at least a little bit to find that out. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
- pionar 13y ago
  So, then if it's that important to you, give the people giving you the cover of HTTPS some money, stop being a cheapskate.
  - thisishugo 13y ago
    It so happens that I consider HTTPS by default for all users a requirement. A problem which a pro subscription does not solve.
- deong 13y ago
  And you can pay for that feature. I have no real stake in the game here, but I'm failing to see why that is a must-have feature for every user of the service.
  - thisishugo 13y ago
    Feasibly, the lack of HTTPS for a subset of users could be used as an attack vector against Feedly, which could surface information about me that I do not want revealed even if I were a Pro user using HTTPS.
siddboots 13y ago
Personally, think we should encourage an ecosystem where https is a given, rather than feature. I would prefer that companies saw this as part-and-parcel with being a responsible service provider. FWIW, I'm a big fan of Feedly, and have upgraded to Pro.
- briandear 13y ago
  Let's tell Heroku to stop charging for the SSL endpoint.
cenhyperion 13y ago
Security shouldn't be a premium.
- arrrg 13y ago
  Huh? Isn’t this about privacy, not security?