I think it was veiled criticism to the United States' ad culture.
Someone using those ISPs should probably look into a vpn. I know it feels weird to trust a third party more than your ISP, but if they're injecting ads into your HTTP responses, maybe you should.
Anyway, giving the user the option of using https and even defaulting to it is a good thing. But I don't think non-encrypted protocols are that disastrous if no secrets are being transmitted.
Someone using those ISPs should probably look into a vpn. I know it feels weird to trust a third party more than your ISP, but if they're injecting ads into your HTTP responses, maybe you should.
Anyway, giving the user the option of using https and even defaulting to it is a good thing. But I don't think non-encrypted protocols are that disastrous if no secrets are being transmitted.