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I'm failing to see an issue with penalizing sites for not using HTTPS. Google has incentive to maintain the quality of their search results by being able to ma

I'm failing to see an issue with penalizing sites for not using HTTPS. Google has incentive to maintain the quality of their search results by being able to make some guarantees that the sites they send visitors to are what they say they are. It's reasonable to extend that to prioritizing sites that can be verified over sites that are easily MITM'd.

ocdtrekkie 12y ago
The quality of a local business cannot be determined by whether or not they cough up $70 a year for HTTPS. The quality of content cannot be determined by whether or not they cough up $70 a year for HTTPS. Penalizing sites for not using it raises the cost of having an opinion or trying to run a business on a nearly arbitrary restriction defined by a monopoly with conflicting business interests who sells web hosting services.