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That's assuming the average internet user types a url into their address bar instead of using their browser's "new tab page" with recent sites (all probably HTTPS) and finding non-history pages through a search engine that will be HTTPS by default and point mostly to HTTPS endpoints.

So yes, you can catch a subset of users who type new urls into their address bar, but that's a minority of people a minority of the time.



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