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That's just how it happened. And historically, it was common to put only the "important things" behind TLS. That never really made sense from a security perspective, but it certainly saved CPU cycles.



I don't really like when I'm not able to read the news because HTTPS didn't want to collaborate with an unreliable connection.




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