Re: browser support of HTTP

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

The only real loss is the electricity needed to enable HTTPS, it's not hard
at all to just plop a reverse proxy in front of whatever site/sites you
need to secure and autorenew certs with Let's Encrypt or your own internal
CA....

On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 15:01, James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Personally, I regard the dropping of support for HTTP as a big win for
> e-commerce sites, for those who monetize information, and for those who
> profit from upgrade treadmills.
>
> And a big loss for the original concept of the Internet as a vehicle for
> the *free and open* exchange of information.
>
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