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Author Topic: Open Source is secure. Unless doing so would make you lose ad revenue.  (Read 2366 times)

Tuxman

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Ouch:

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

Open Source sucks.

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

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Probably the ad provider doesn't support HTTPS.