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Tuxman:
Ouch:

The vulnerability will not be fixed. The indirect costs of switching to HTTPS (like lost advertisement revenue) make it a inviable solution.
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Open Source sucks.

Deozaan:
How would using HTTPS result in lost advertisement revenue? HTTPS makes it harder to block ads...

Tuxman:
Probably the ad provider doesn't support HTTPS.

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