Big thing that made encryption required is arguably that ISPs started injecting crap into webpages.

Governments can still track you with little issue since SNI is unencrypted. It's also very likely that Cloudflare and the like are sharing what they see as they MITM 80% of your connections.

▲

jopsen 14 minutes ago | parent [-]

> It's also very likely that Cloudflare and the like are sharing what they see as they MITM 80% of your connections.

Maybe, I suspect not, but even so if we reduce the number of men in the middle that's pretty nice.

	▲	marginalia_nu 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Between what Snowden told us, and the CLOUD Act, it seems quite likely.