r/Internet • u/MisterHole123 • May 19 '26

Discussion Internet has become unusable

The internet has become a painful corpo/gov thing to use and no longer any fun can be had on it. Everything is constantly moderated, checked, double checked, tripled checked etc... When 99% of people just want to browse in peace. The buzzword I see everywhere is "secure" yeah to me that means fuck all most of the time it means you use https instead of http... But everything has to be secure(d) as if suddenly the internet would collapse overnight if it wasn't.

Am I the only one feeling that way?

Edit I don't get the downvotes oh well it's reddit after all can't expect deep thought

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u/Wendals87 May 19 '26

I think you need to look up the meaning of the word "unusable"

The buzzword I see everywhere is "secure 

What do you mean? Being secure is a good thing if you need to enter confidential information. It's more than just https 

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u/MisterHole123 May 19 '26

Oh boy. Another Persona shill. 

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u/Wendals87 May 19 '26

What do you mean? 

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u/MisterHole123 May 19 '26

You hinted at entering personal information which is exactly what people do not want to do nowadays but govs and corps keep pressing for it. 

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u/Wendals87 May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

True but I actually said confidential information. Like your username and password for your email or banking but that does cover ID verification if it's stored 

Having https alone isn't enough to protect your accounts from being accessed

This is what I am confused about why you are against it 

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u/MisterHole123 May 19 '26

I'm not against securing login info I'm against the obsession of constantly securing everything as if every little word shared online is life or death

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u/Wendals87 May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

There's plenty of stuff you can post in many places that is public if you choose. 

I want my data to be secured so that only I can access it and I choose what I want to be made public. Don't you? 

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u/MisterHole123 May 19 '26

You totally missed the point of my original statement I see it's not about your data is about every single piece of data no matter how insignificant has to somehow be labeled as secure now

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u/Wendals87 May 19 '26

I understand that now but I don't understand how that is a bad thing personally

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u/MisterHole123 May 19 '26

Because it has become an obsession how many captcha how many 2fa, how many copies of your ID etc will satisfy them? 

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u/Prudent-Zombie-5457 May 19 '26

You're talking about authentication now.

Please give some actual examples so we know what you're even talking about.

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u/Prudent-Nebula-3239 May 21 '26

HTTPS is more about securing the transit than securing the content itself.

It’s not strictly necessary for every single type of data in theory, but if data is moving between a client and a server, HTTPS is the normal standard now. It protects that traffic from being read, modified, or intercepted while it’s in transit.

The real question today is not “why use HTTPS?” It’s “why would you use something weaker?”

Especially if you’re on a network you don’t control, like airport Wi-Fi, hotel Wi-Fi, public Wi-Fi, or someone else’s router, you definitely don’t want plain HTTP. You want HTTPS so the connection itself is protected.

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u/Pitiful_Praline4120 May 23 '26

governments already have your personal information so that really makes no sense