Akim Demaille wrote: > (Why do we promote https https? What do we actually gain? I can see > it make machines work more and waste more electricity which is quite at > odds with trying to be kind to the planet. So I guess there must be some > real added value, but which one?)
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/encrypt-in-transit/why-https TL/DR: Prevents MITM (though in case of Bison downloads, checking GPG signatures does the same, better, but must be done manually), and user behaviour sniffing. STL/DR: Google says so. Regards, Frank
