SSL in 2018

What's the point of using SSL in

$CURRENT_YEAR

? Thanks to LetsEncrypt & co. anyone can get a bogus cert easily, while users are being conditioned to keep ignoring the magical green padlock icon in the URL bar. The protocol itself has not been clearly visible in the bar for a long time now. Clicking on it is not a solution for the typical user who does not even know that it's clickable.

the point of SSL is that you don't get MITM'd

TLS is basically the poor man's onion address.

>>3
I read about all of Tor relying on some TLS cert so you onionfags aren't as anon as you think you are

>>4
Where did you read that?

>>5
I think he,s confused.

Client-only Tor instances are encouraged to avoid using handshake variants that include certificates, if those certificates provide any persistent tags to the relays they contact. If clients do use certificates, they SHOULD NOT keep using the same certificates when their IP address changes. Clients MAY send certificates using any of the above handshake variants.

https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/tor-spec.txt