Like the TSA at the airport.

Security that we never needed before, but now suddenly we do.

Now we're dependent on a third party gatekeeper for permission to have a web site.

Free, for now.

It's a move by the weasels-that-be to turn the Internet into yet another tool for profit and control.

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago

I'd consider my internet browsing unknowingly being snooped on or having content injected as a benefit and not a scam.

The latest post from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital freedom and privacy advocacy group touches on HTTPS, and how HTTPS becoming the norm is an improvement on privacy compared to the past.

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