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		pooper on May 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Klarna users are being signed in to random account... From what I remember there was a lot of pushback from infrastructure as we thought using https for the whole website would increase CPU load. Never verified if this was true... but I'm sure someone here should know.

shkkmo on May 27, 2021 [–]

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Push back on what? There was pushback against HTTPS for non-authenticated pages for various reasons.

That does not mean that HTTPS for authenticated pages was not considered a standard and necessary security measure.

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