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You cannot call out something dogma if you don’t understand reasons.

Injecting ads by ISPs into http is documented and known - they can inject anything on transit of HTTP it can be done automatically and basically with 0 cost. ISP is one the other all kind of free WiFi.

It is not only “NSA will get me” or only financial transactions. There are new known exploits in browsers and systems found on daily basis.

So reasoning is someone has to be of interest - not true because it is cheap and automated tls is making cost higher for simply scooping stuff.



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