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by Y_Y 197 days ago
TLS is cool for stopping your ISP from MiTMing your traffic (usually to insert shitty banner ads or something).

Otherwise I find it a scourge, particularly when I want to run https over a private network, but browsers have a shitfit because I didn't publicly announce my internal hosts.

There's plenty of traffic that has no need to be encrypted, and where not much privacy is added since the DNS queries are already leaked (as well as what the site operator and their many "partners" can gather).

I'm glad you can get free certs from Let's Encrypt, but I hate that https has become mandatory.