[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The vast majority of app network requests would be secured by getting the TrustStore patch via Play Services, with only exceptions shipping their own crypto stack needing to update to be secured.

Still, updating your apps regularly is good practice that you should follow anyway

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    About the only thing I'm aware of that's still HTTP that a person would have a reason to visit would be their router's webpage and even then something like a self-signed Tofu's certificate would be fine for something like that.

    If == 192.168., 10.0. then tofu

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    In efficiency? Because high power draw for better performance is a major downside for a phone... Just like how Nvidia GPU performance has pretty much just scaled a bit above their wattage. I would much rather have previous gen performance at half the power draw...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's been an option in Firefox since about then. Chrome has been pretty slow to add https only modes. This is them changing it to https by default, which is probably for the best. There aren't a ton of reasons to visit http sites unless you intend to, like something hosted locally.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago

    This is why I run Graphene OS now. Finally flashed it this past weekend. I miss having root, but I suppose choosing to lock the bootloader and give up root for true security is also a form of maintaining control over my own hardware.

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