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This would be massively annoying for my local network. I trust that I do not mitm myself for malicious reasons and really do not feel like setting up certs on my lan...

Talking about certs, nowadays it seems browsers want to make you believe that self signed certs are some diabolical work straight from hell. Using self signed certs with websockets on Firefox is actually nearly impossible [1].

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187666

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I do wish there was a way to disable all those https-only protections in a browser for development on the local machine. Yes I know for localhost they are sometimes disabled (but not always, like e.g. samesite=none cookies), but sometimes you want to test cross-domain interactions using a tool like dnsmasq, and it gets to be a real hassle

The push to demonize self-signed certs literally makes me think browsers are in the pocket of BigCert

Certificates from Let's Encrypt are free.

Thanks man, but I don’t remember asking anything?

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