So it started about 4 days ago in Brave, my browser of choice. Many, many websites (including this one) are unavailable, displaying an error message of “your connection is not private”. I would say that a good 40% to 50% of the websites that I attempt to access exhibit this problem.
I can sometimes circumvent the issue by clicking on “Advanced”, and linking to the site that is deemed “unsafe”. Other times, it is not possible due to something called HSTS.
Some of the sites not accessible on Brave can be opened in Opera. Others cannot.
Even more of the sites not accessible on Brave can be opened in Firefox. But not necessarily the same ones as in Opera.
Suspecting perhaps some bad juju on my system, I ran Malwarebytes. But my computer appears to be clean.
Wondering if this is happening to anyone else, and wondering what all this means. Can everyone’s certificate expire at the very same time? It is incredibly time-wasting and frustrating.
I haven’t run into this problem on Safari. But just as a wild guess … a lot of big sites (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) went down for some period of time over the past 24 hours. It may all be related to that.
My browsers are all up to date, but the OS (for reasons of Photoshop) is decidedly old. And the problem started on the 1st, right after the Let’s Encrypt expiry date.
Oh dear. Before capitulating to Adobe subscription extortion, waiting (it seems forever) for Apple to produce a new and improved and hopefully larger iMac.
Is there anything you suggest I can do in the meantime?
