All the companies involved in PRISM made public statements saying they ceased participation. Google undertook a costly initiative to add encrypted connections over their datacenter circuits. The NSA leaks were a forcing function that led to a massive uptake of encryption. Up until that point it was common for websites to support only HTTP.

The NSA leaks dominated news cycles for the entirety of 2013.

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lukewarm707 an hour ago | parent [-]

my llm api traffic terminates tcp at cloudflare in lovely plain text :/

it does give better peering. reduces latency a bit for me.

	▲	my-next-account 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I had no idea that this was a thing. How can you figure out where SSL turns into plain text on its route to the destination?