Airline / Travel HTTP Crimes
Anyone noticed HTTP / HTTPS breaking while trying to Check-In online or when Printing a Boarding Pass? You're taken to the Parent-Airline site first to authenticate (HTTPS). But then they send you to the Subsidiary-Airline site (the airline you're actually flying with), to enter Passport and other personal details before issuing the final boarding pass.
That can even just be a random 3rd-Party site (again over HTTP only).... WTF airlines? Get your sht together! The only solution is hold off / don't use it, wait in line at the airport. Might be better anyway, as the amount of server-side user tracking its already toxic:
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Emirates / Lufthansa dinged for slipshod online data privacy practices
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/05/emirates_dinged_for_slipshod_privacy_practices/
Biting the hand that feeds IT
