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> Until there's a free, easy, maintainable, and actually existent solution to SSL certs, enforcing HTTPS-only is just downright extortion.

True - but the second that solution exists, I can't think of anything that should stick with unsecured HTTP, and this article didn't change my mind. I don't think we need a "ban", though. Just flip the way browsers show secured vs unsecured, instead of the green reassuring lock for https, that becomes the expected default and http gets a scary red plaintext indicator.



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