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27.11.2024 So, I finally got an SSL certificate for this site - it was long overdue, even though there really was no need for me to have one. It used to be that you only ever needed a certificate for financial transactions or connecting to your bank, but then Microsoft and Google jumped on the bandwagon and before long browsers were setup by default to block sites without a certificate. Total bollocks! There are no financial transactions here - there aren't even advertisements (and, believe me, I have been approached on many occasions over the last 24 years by some company or another wanting to advertise some bullshit on this site, and each and every time I have either ignored them or told them to piss off). Anyway I thought it'd be easy to install a certificate (how hard could it be?). I contacted my web host, hinted that I was thinking of migrating the site elsewhere, and they offered me an SSL at a price I could hardly refuse (well relative to all the hassle of moving to another webhost that is). Now, I register this domain with a different company to my host and this seemed to cause all kinds of problems. Maybe I'm a bit thick, but I couldn't quite figure out what I had to do to activate the certificate and after 3 hours of fucking about last night, I gave up and went to bed confused and non the wiser. Fast-forward to this morning and the certificate had somehow been magically activated. Still no idea exactly how this happened but I'll take it as a win. So now dear wander of the digital wasteland, media-underground.net is like every other website, complying with something complete unnecessary and conforming to a standard that never needed to be a standard in the first place. I miss the old internet. |