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The crux of people's objections is that to bring up a "secure" site with this mechanism, you need the blessing of an unaffiliated 3rd party.

And yea, for the last 20 years ISP's have been doing stupid stuff with people's connections, but companies have been trying harder and harder to lock down the internet and put the genie back in the bottle.

(This is the core of the objection to PassKeys, FWIW)

If HTTP/3 let users run their own secure site, without any 3rd party parts, then we are good. Why not a trust-on-first-use mechanism, but with a clear UX explaining the implications of accepting the certificates?



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