> I find it sad that corporations have decided the internet should be predominantly a private space.
This has very little to do with "corporations deciding the internet should be a predominantly private space", and everything to do with governments deciding that the internet is open season for information warfare and spying on citizens. The big push for HTTPS-everywhere hasn't been driven by "corporations affected by thieves", it's been driven in the wake of the Snowden revelations.
As long as Advanced Persistent Threats exist, you have no way of verifying you're even reading the real c2.org, or ASCII-doc site, or some censored replacement a privileged network opponent is impersonating it with.
HTTPS gives us some measure of security that we're talking with who we think we're talking with back.
This has very little to do with "corporations deciding the internet should be a predominantly private space", and everything to do with governments deciding that the internet is open season for information warfare and spying on citizens. The big push for HTTPS-everywhere hasn't been driven by "corporations affected by thieves", it's been driven in the wake of the Snowden revelations.
As long as Advanced Persistent Threats exist, you have no way of verifying you're even reading the real c2.org, or ASCII-doc site, or some censored replacement a privileged network opponent is impersonating it with.
HTTPS gives us some measure of security that we're talking with who we think we're talking with back.