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But according to this discussion over at reddit, HTTP 2 seems to be made required for "real" sites:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1qj1tz/http_20_t...

So now it's NO choice after all. If you want to run a "real" site, not only must you pay rent for your DNS, you are now also being extorted into paying money to CAs. CAs which can be subverted by the NSA, so they're effectively worthless anyway.

That's a bad move. Internet should be getting cheaper, not more expensive.

This whole HTTP 2.0 affair is turning into a real piece of extremely short-sighted shenanigans. Given W3C's green-light on DRM in HTML, we should start questioning if we want to entrust them with these sort of tasks in the future. They have gone completely off the rails.



You misunderstood. Nobody forces you to use HTTP 2.0, you can use HTTP 1.1 or even 1.0.

And, again, HTTP 2.0 has nothing to do with CA prices.




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