Google Chrome is going to start blocking HTTP downloads.
This is what we get when authorities start taking over software: blocking connectivity disguised as security features.
A download being malicious has nothing to do with HTTP.
Stop pretending to be good, Google. Stop pretending to be secure, Google. Stop pretending you want a secure internet, Google.
There are a few websites that use http for the landing page, then use https for login and post login. I agree, this blocking will make things harder and imply that https can't be used for malicious content.
@dani
As an #onionMaximalist, we object to the use of #http, because over Tor any #exitNode can alter what a client sees.
Both I2P and Tor have ways to ensure #authenicity. The (somewhat too) long addresses themselves do the #authenication.
We encourage I2P.
@zleap exactly! https can be used for malicious content.