[KronisLV]

Perhaps less related to the original post, but I found this interesting:

> Let's Encrypt is such a huge part of the Internet now that I don't think browser vendors could decide to just stop trusting their certs. Even if they did, another free certificate vendor would appear and we'd be back at square one.

I wonder how come every large provider out there doesn't have their own free certificates in an attempt to compete with Let's Encrypt, get a piece of the free cert market share and possibly upsell their premium services in the process?

The only viable alternative to Let's Encrypt that I personally know of appears to be ZeroSSL: https://zerossl.com/

Though from what I can tell, they have a 3 free cert limitation, at least when provisioned through the website. Which actually seems like a decent attempt to encourage people to pay for their other products (and things like wildcard certificates).

Sure, many might just stick with Let's Encrypt, but why isn't every vendor out there doing the same thing?