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Also likely because in the past the internet was really diverse. One would visit 20 sites possibly during one session.

Today, the landscape looks more like: You visit Google, click some links that open in AMP (still Google), visit some social networks (primarily Twitter and FB-owned properties). These companies already operate TLS-only, which helps these numbers.




Right. Encrypted web traffic at 90% is different than encrypted web sites at 90%.


When netflix is half, torrent traffic included add in google/facebook/faangs and you arrive at 90% easily.


Don't forget porn.


I thought torrent traffic was generally not encrypted.


Not to mention the world-class encryption used by torrents is RC4. It would be hard to pick a worse cipher (the encryption protocol was designed in 2006).




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