To the people replying to this comment, he's not talking about the ads not being able to use the users location. Most don't. But plenty of ad networks don't work properly or the CPM is much lower for HTTPS enabled websites. I'm guessing r1ch is using a users' locations for his site, and it's ad supported. Hope everyone who is against ads is willing to pay for their content from now on!
> he's not talking about the ads not being able to use the users location
The reason for wanting the user's location doesn't matter. It's incredibly irresponsible to send the user's location (or any other user data) over the network unencrypted.
Yes this was meant to be my point - I didn't even consider ads using gelocation (which explains the downvotes I guess :))).
While we do use geolocation and ads on one of our sites, it's only a single page so this doesn't really affect us that much. I can see it causing big problems with ad-supported sites / services that use geolocation as a primary feature though as I've experienced first-hand the revenue drop that HTTPS causes.
