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by Suzuran 84 days ago
Using HTTP does not guarantee your content can be read, since it can be modified in transit. Your content could be replaced entirely and you would never know unless someone reported it to you.
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This is true, and is a real failure mode of HTTP.

Where I live, and for people with older devices, this happens much less frequently than the HTTPS failure modes of unsupported browsers.