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failbuffer • yesterday at 5:24 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Bingo... that was muchly the case prior to Let's Encrypt's introduction. They single handily changed prevailing practices outside of big tech.


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duskwuff • yesterday at 8:40 PM

That's a bit of an exaggeration. Domain-validated certificates already existed, and were fairly commonplace, before Let's Encrypt. What was different about LE was that their certificates were free.