I'm mildly surprised GKH doesn't deploy SSL. In this day and age I just close the browser window when the http-only browser warning comes up and move on to something else.

I dont use a popular browser to make TCP/UDP connections or HTTP requests over the internet

This group

https://cabforum.org/about/membership/members/

has no control over the software I use

I believe I can do better checks on who "controls" a domain name than Let's Encrypt. If I am the CA then I dont "trust" ad/tracking servers. But popular browsers do. Third party CAs are happy to take money from the people behind the data collection, surveillance and ad services that have ruined the web

I dont find anti-HTTP commentary any more convincing than anti-HTTPS commentary. Each user is different and is free to choose. Each is free to make their own decisions under whatever their own circumstances

For many years, cr.yp.to was HTTP-only

Popular browsers, TLS libraries and "Certificate Authorities" make heavy use of cryptography developed by the author of that site

Generally anyone who uses Linux makes use of software developed by the author of this blog post

Anyway, Tor is another TLS option besides using an archive