The need for TLS is less in purely information websites, but there are a number of problems with this attitude. For one thing, the content of the pages you visi

The need for TLS is less in purely information websites, but there are a number of problems with this attitude. For one thing, the content of the pages you visit still leaks information about a user, even if the page isn't customized per user. Second, authenticated, trustworthy SSL connections provide MITM protection and prevents modification of the content you receive - the transition from HTTP to HTTPS is generally going to be vulnerable to an sslstrip-like attack, homoglyph attacks, etc, plus content could be modified maliciously in transit directly over an HTTP connection (a less drastic form of this sort of thing has happened many times with ISPs adding in tracking cookies in transit, or comcast adding some javascript to pages when you get close to your bandwidth limit). In any case, the cost of all-TLS is really not so high that you can't enable it just for edge cases who want or need to use secure connections for all internet communication.