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It's treated as worse because if people get used to clicking "accept" for self signed then they'll do the same when they get MITM'd. Want an example? Any error dialogue.


So you think the current browser behavior, with a scary warning and an accept button, is bad?

If they were treated like http there would be no dialogue.




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