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That applies to modern hardware and modern infrastructue – not to people in third world countries on decade old cheap hardware with barely working networks.


Decade old hardware can do TLS fine. Barely working networks can do TLS just as well as they can do non-TLS.


Barely working networks tend to use custom caching systems where TLS accesses often taken dozens of times longer.


They can always make the proxy explicit.




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