mrkgnao: A layman's question:
What is the benefit of having https for pages that contain only public information (e.g. game catalogue)?
shmerl: Your activity should be private to you. Since
all traffic should be viewed as intercepted (as now well known), it basically means that using open traffic is like carrying a tracking device with you (which also records what you do) that some Big Brother can always access. What are the implications of that is not really as important as the question of whether you even find that acceptable. I don't think anyone should. So having all traffic encrypted by default is the only way to improve this at least in some way.
See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Thank you. I understand better now. And I applaud you effort.
I myself have no illusions of privacy in either real or digital life and I therefore do not strive to maintain what I believe is already non-existent. Https will not make me feel less intruded upon than http. My only hope is that I am boring enough so that nobody would ever want to spy on me.
