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> The knockout punch for unencrypted sites will come when browsers make the decision to not load plain HTTP sites by default in order to protect their users.

That would be a terrible idea: it would break every "http:" link in existence, requiring people to edit billions of documents. And if "modern" browsers started pretending that "http:" meant "https:", it would break every other browser and lots of bots.




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