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JohnHellI don't want to rant, but I have to. Google said "if you don't offer secured version of your web, you we'll be down ranked in the search results"; webmasters understood "if you don't offer
HTTPs only, you won't be on Google results"
Yeah, always falling from one **
EXTREME** into the other, all things in today's society, such fanatism is just unbearable and so destructive
But let me put one thing straight, to avoid a common misunderstanding:
no one really insists to get completely UNencrypted HTTP.
Only that the
options don't start with banking-safe TLS1.3, for harmless public websites!
Many browsers today can only do TLS1.2, that lower version should be delivered as
fallback. Or if a browser is yet older and understands only TLS 1.1, or even 1.0 (SSL3), this minor encryption should be available as
FALLBACK!
Just as you explained above too.
Of course, not for banking and other login stuff that must really be SECURE, but for completely harmless PUBLIC web pages and downloads. It makes absolutely no sense to completely DENY reading access to public pages to people with older browsers.
One of the worst such sites being github and sourceforge, hosting probable 90% of apps for older systems. Brilliant move to kick out and
force people to give up their older equipments. And "developer.mozilla.org", what I need all the time, denying us simple reading access for tons of important "how to" information for Firefox, forks and addons. Without roytam's special builds of FF2/3.6 and KG74 would be lost completely.
Frankly, that still most websites today enforce very MODERN browsers, without any need, gives me the suspicion there may still be some pressure from google to do this. Perhaps otherwise websites get probs with google services, ad contracts or whatever? Considering that companies like Google or MS do try to enforce their latest spying technologies wherever they can, with all might.
(PS: of course the other extreme is just as harmful, being forced to login somewhere with low or even ANY encryption)
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/03/2019 10:28PM by siria.