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> It's the one being discussed in this sub-thread in case you missed it and assumed the normal HN business context.

I did miss that but I did not assume a business context.

> The burden is real and completely unecessary for personal websites.

Users who visit your website are still at risk of having their connection hijacked - they could be phished, exploited, etc. This is maybe not something you consider important, it is certainly a sort of "boil the ocean" approach, but given the efforts put in up until this point I think it's already the case that most users are probably not visiting HTTP sites on the average day. Continuing that effort seems reasonable.

> This makes the web more commercial by imposing commercial requirements on everyone.

I'm not sure what you mean.




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