Re: Draft finding - "Transitioning the Web to HTTPS"

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:28 PM,  <chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
> 19.01.2015, 15:01, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@annevk.nl>:
>> and if anything we should move towards making it impossible to connect to such sites.
>
> I'd prefer you don't interfere with my decisions about what I want to look at and read. That is a whole step beyond suggesting to me that I might not be getting what I asked for.
>
> The latter is, when done right, a useful service. The former is censorship, and while I support the right of the society I live in to decide that some things should not be made available, I find it highly inappropriate that a browser vendor would take it into their hands to make such decisions.

Do you find it inappropriate that the Yandex Browser is currently
unable to connect to https://crypto.cat/ and https://tv.eurosport.com/
(demo site) with no apparent option for ignoring the problem? If not,
you're already OK with browser vendors making such decisions, and
merely disagree about the cases in which it should be possible to
ignore the certificate error.

Philip

Received on Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:44:38 UTC