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Give them a few more years and every site except big social media will be flagged as dangerous in your browser, like those without valid SSL certs are now.
Pushing SSL was probably the last big tech effort/push that actually benefited users. Sure it made self hosting a little harder, and probably consolidated some tracking behind bigger players, but overall end users did benefit.
Most of what I see now is purely for their benefit and users don't benefit.
Yeah, rallying against SSL is a weird way to go about it. SSL is one of the biggest and most meaningful changes to come about as a result of the Snowden leaks. The leaks were literally what prompted http to shift towards https instead, because it shined a bright spotlight on how insecure http truly is.
In the short term, it made self-hosting more difficult. But nowadays, with things like nginx and Let’s Encrypt, enabling SSL on your self-hosted site is as simple as selecting a few drop-down boxes, pasting an API key, and automating a cert refresh.
The true “has the potential to gatekeep the entire internet” existential threat is when a company like Meta or Google becomes the authority for things like ID verification or SSO.
Add Cloudflare hosting everything to that list.
But it's so cheeeeeep! My website (continuously hosted since 1996) used to cost me $15 per month, since I migrated it to Cloudfare they're charging $0.01 ro $0.02 per month for the same hosting services - it's been about 18 months now, I think - I just got last months "bill" - I now owe them $0.25, but they won't charge me until it hits $1.00.
Free service? YOU are the product.
A big man in the middle attack service, operating in a hostile nation? What could go wrong?
I'm not rallying against SSL. Just an example of browser warnings.
Wouldn't be surprised in the least.
We're well on our way to being something in between North Korea and Russia. Maybe Hungary would be a good comparison.