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boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It really doesn’t, on a technical level.

You’re not sending them any data. None that they send you is unique to you. There’s no real benefit in encrypting it.

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colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

There’s no real benefit in encrypting it.

When you request a website over http your ISP can intercept the request (this is how captive portals for free WiFi work, and the reason for the existence of pages like captive.apple.com to be HTTP-only). IIRC they can also insert whatever they want to on the web page, I believe there was a case a while back of ISPs doing that.

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- boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oh, right. I forgot American ISPs are allowed to pull shit like that. I don’t think this would fly where I live. I also don’t use public WiFi, because why would I even
  
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Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

None that they send you is unique to you.

By not transporting via https you can not be sure about that, because you can’t be sure it’s them sending you the data.

An injecting proxy could add ads, or scams to the content.

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