Free of financial cost perhaps, but not free of effort. Let's Encrypt is a pain to set up and maintain on a self-hosted website, if you don't maintain websites professionally and don't have experience.
People lament the centralization of the web, but this https-or-the-highway mantra is contributing to exactly that! Because there is a way to truly get https "for free", and it's to throw up your site on Github Pages or Squarespace. Or just use Facebook.
Free of financial cost perhaps, but not free of effort. Let's Encrypt is a pain to set up and maintain on a self-hosted website, if you don't maintain websites professionally and don't have experience.
People lament the centralization of the web, but this https-or-the-highway mantra is contributing to exactly that! Because there is a way to truly get https "for free", and it's to throw up your site on Github Pages or Squarespace. Or just use Facebook.