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by iso1210 2087 days ago
https doesn't flag that.

Your browser might flag a http server as dangerous (mine doesn't - it just has a padlock with a line through), but you're leaking information to your ISP that you are reading about a Physical Therapist.

If your site tries to do https and fails (self signed or invalid certificate) it will rightly flag up that it's a problem.

My grandma would not be able to manage a server on the internet, let alone responsibly manage it. If you can't set up a modern server with https then you shouldn't be running a server on the internet at all.

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Assuming your physical therapist has their own website with its own doman, and not just, say, a Facebook page, you're leaking that information to your ISP with https, too. https doesn't hide the domain you're talking to, just the specific URLs within that domain.
We have SNI. Now sure your therapist may run their own VM on it's own IP address, but that's not very likely.
SNI doesn't encrypt the desired hostname in the payload of the initial connection. It's still plainly visible to an eavesdropper. They can also observe un-encrypted DNS lookups.
Chrome and derivatives display "! Not secure" in the omnibar, which is presumably what they are referring to.
20 year ago the world thought that IE6 was synonymous with the internet

Thank god we moved on from that.