Like the TSA at the airport.
Security that we never needed before, but now suddenly we do.
Now we’re dependent on a third party gatekeeper for permission to have a web site.
Free, for now.
It’s a move by the weasels-that-be to turn the Internet into yet another tool for profit and control.
They’re a non profit backed by a ton of major internet players, it’s not going to happen. https://letsencrypt.org/about/
What you’re talking about was already the situation before LE existed, we’re not going back to that. There’s other free providers now too.
Ok. That’s a good argument. I didn’t realize that the forces for good here were so strong in this.
But frankly I’d rather not depend on them either.
Well, self-sign your own certs and deal with the implications of not being a trusted root certificate authority