"encryption everywhere" is one of the stupider ideas that's come around lately. shared asset caching was a good idea, that was why there had been all that work done to support it. "Content Delivery Networks" would be far less important if we hadn't casually thrown that baby out with the bilgewater
Although, I'm sure the hosting companies loved that most of their clients now had to pay for those dedicated I.P. addresses and certs.
https ensures that the content you see is the same as the server you get it from.
It's not about reading, it's about people changing the content while in transit