Isn't pastebin the correct site to post lists like this?

r3bl · on Oct 15, 2016

Not if you want to update it.

Also, Pastebin has some shady practices. One example: they offer HTTPS support as a premium feature.

oolongCat · on Oct 15, 2016

I am sorry, but I fail to see how offering https support as a premium feature could be considered "shady".

chill1 · on Oct 15, 2016

All web traffic should be encrypted, regardless of purpose. This increases the work that nation-state level adversaries must do to effectively spy on the population. And it's cheap and easy to do these days.

oolongCat · on Oct 15, 2016

It's not a question if its easy to do or not. Yes I prefer an encrypted connection over one that is not.

BUT! the point here is the op claims this is a shady practice to provide https to their paying customers.

A shady practice is if they take your personal information and sell it to another without telling you. Shady is when companies lie to their customers.

And this situation is not.

chill1 · on Oct 15, 2016

Fair enough. I don't think this is a "shady" practice either. But I think it's an old, out-dated practice to charge extra money for a feature that should be on by default.

mistaken · on Oct 15, 2016

Why not ask the archive.org guys to publish it somewhere? The research already relies on their data and they seem to be pretty good at defusing shady legal requests.