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Comment by superkuh

HTTP/3 is becoming more popular because Microsoft and Google white-washed google's QUIC through the IETF. It's popular because what they call "HTTP/3" is perfectly designed for meeting the needs of a multi-national corporation serving web content to millions of people. But it's only megacorps using it for their walled gardens.

It's a terrible protocol for the human person web. You can't even host a visitable website for people who use HTTP/3 without getting the permission of a third party corporation to temporarily lend you an TLS cert. Once Chrome drops HTTP/1.1 support say goodbye to just hosting a website as a person free from any chains to corporate ass-covering. While LetsEncrypt is benign now, it won't always stay that way as more and more people use it. Just like with dot Org it'll go bad and there'll be nowhere to run.

TLS only HTTP/3 is just as bad for individual autonomy as web attestation in it's own way.

parent superkuh 3 years ago

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