Submitted 4 months ago by Dr_Satan@lemm.ee to [deleted]
Like the TSA at the airport. Security that we never needed before, but now suddenly we do. Now we’re dependent on a third party gatekeeper for permission to have a web site. Free, for now. It’s a move by the weasels-that-be to turn the Internet into yet another tool for profit and control.
Bruh it’s been here for well over two decades.
That’s too long a run-up for a scam.
Not sure I get this one. You can still run a website with http. Now it might alarm the browser and users. But you can do it.
As for certificates being free but maybe not now. It's actually the other way round. As I recall when https was pretty new the main way was via verisign, and it was not cheap to get one.
The fact you could later get one for free for example via letsencrypt is what made it so everyone could run https (along with the changes that allow multiple certs on a single server with multiple domains).
If it became expensive to get certs again I'd bet a lot of hobbyist stuff would go back to http or self signed and browsers would need to tone down the warning. But, I cannot imagine that happening now. Having most sites encrypted is a good thing.
It’s defenitively not a scam. It does exactly ehat it should and is pretty good at it.
However, especially google is pushing it on everything, even when they are not needed. Punishing search results if they don’t enforce https, make it hard to access sites in chrome etc.
I have a static website that takes no user input whatsoever, thus https is pointless and a waste of compute power/energy.
In the end I see the biggest issue in not very tech literate useres thinking everything with https is legit and trustworrhy, while it really isn’t.
toasteecup@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Go ahead, submit your credit card details in pain text. I’m sure nothing bad will happen.
Dr_Satan@lemm.ee 4 months ago
But 99% of us with websites don’t take credit card numbers.