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by MrGando 3954 days ago
I'm pretty sure Google will eventually enforce HTTPs for their third party ad-networks. The problem is that a lot of those guys live in the Paleolithic era regarding security, google needs their inventory, so it's not as simple as just saying: "dude you're going down if you don't do HTTPs now".

And it's also easy to just say "google should just suck it up and take their losses and just do HTTPS". You have to think that a lot of games rely on Google having a big ad inventory to monetize (and it's their only revenue model).

I don't work at Google, but do work in ad-tech. The HTTPS only move by Apple is great and will make a lot of things better... But it's going to take a while.

PS: Check prices of CDNs with SSL... They are also expensive.