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by mehrdadn 2136 days ago
Thanks, but then what do I do about HTTP-only sites? Why can't it default to HTTPS and then auto-fallback to HTTP when HTTPS connections fail for sites that aren't in the known-HTTPS list? It seems like a logical thing to do instead of just going straight to HTTP.
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This only helps you at all against passive adversaries.

An active adversary will just cheerfully block that HTTPS connection because you'll fall back to insecure silently.

I fully understand that and that's still clearly still better than going straight to HTTP, which it's already doing.