Nowadays almost every website provides an encrypted way of communication between itself and end user. I would love to say it’s because web administrators these are concerned about their visitors’ data safety but, while that might also be true in some cases, browsers these days will show a big “ERRRR, SOMETHING’S WRONG!” warning message when we try to connect to a non-HTTPS website.
While obtaining the certificates is pretty much free nowadays (as long as we’re OK with the amount of trustworthiness we get by running a Let’s Encrypt! certificate) and some providers will even help us put them in the right place, we still have to remember to renew our certificates every now and then. If we don’t then, oh well. We’re back to square one because having expired certificate is as good as having no certificate at all when it comes to browsers screaming at us.
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