XPost: alt.privacy.anon-server   
   From: fritz@spamexpire-202512.rodent.frell.theremailer.net   
      
   hal@invalid.net wrote:   
   >On Tue,  9 Dec 2025 23:16:42 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 07 Dec 2025, Ishtar  posted some   
   >>news:20251207144119.71AB23E71F@xilb7y4kj6u6qfo45o3yk2kilfv54ffukzei3puonuq   
   >>lncy7cn2afwyd.onion:   
   >>   
   >>> https only mode activated even if optional,   
   >>> enabled by default, is a clearnet option.   
   >>> It has nothing to do with the onion network.   
   >>   
   >>Not just Tor browser.  The option sucks because it's forced.  It's stupid   
   >>really.  There are http websites still in use and the setting prevents   
   >>those who don't know how to work around it from accessing those sites -   
   >>which is most of the Internet users at large.  It doesn't matter if the   
   >>site is http or https in terms of being dangerous.  It even stops users   
   >>from accessing or troubleshooting something simple like a Wi-Fi printer or   
   >>router.   
   >   
   >My browser, FFx 115.15.0esr with windows 7 gives me the option to go to   
   >te http with a security warning.  No problem.   
      
   The Tor Browser works exactly the same way.  And there are some hostile   
   exit nodes, which try to degrade connections to http, but after routing   
   through a different circuit you suddenly get a secure https connection.   
      
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