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		tialaramex on Aug 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without This only helps you at all against passive adversaries. An active adversary will just cheerfully block that HTTPS connection because you'll fall back to insecure silently.

dataflow on Aug 12, 2020 [–]

I fully understand that and that's still clearly still better than going straight to HTTP, which it's already doing.

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