> I noticed that Whatsapp is even worse than Chrome, it opens HTT PS even if I share HTTP links.
Firefox does this when I type in a URL and the server is down. I absolutely hate this behaviour, because I run a bunch of services inside my network.
If I tell my browser ‘fetch http://site.example,’ I mean for it to connect to site.example on HTTP on port 80 nothing more. If there is a web server run ning which wants to redirect me to https://site.example, awesome, but my browser should never assume I mean anything I did not say.)
Sorry for the offtopicness but could you please email hn@ycombinator.com so I can explain why your comment only appeared here 14 hours after you tried 9 times to post it? :)