Andrew: Not ugly; it was utilitarian. It was also relatively fast, given the bandwidth available and to a very large degree, it was ad free and cookies didn’t follow you around spying on your every move. I’d happily give up “pretty” for “private”.

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Not ugly; it was utilitarian. It was also relatively fast, given the bandwidth available and to a very large degree, it was ad free and cookies didn’t follow you around spying on your every move. I’d happily give up “pretty” for “private”.

1. None of that web traffic was encrypted. It could be read by anyone on the network. 2. pretty/private is not the tradeoff and it never was.

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