[ryannielsen]

Improved privacy is one benefit https provides. There are two other benefits worth considering: authentication and integrity. Without https, there is no way trust a site's identity, and no guarantees the data you're receiving was not modified in transit.

Don't forget to weigh those other two factors when judging https adoption. Your goals are understandable and worthwhile. They're also still achievable with appropriate client management software.

Consider this: in a world without https, your children could visit a valid, approved domain and be served malicious or undesirable content because someone modified the content in flight or intercepted the connection. There is literally no way for you to have any guarantee what's served to your children.

In a world with https (and appropriate client management software), you can be confident they really are only receiving approved content because the connection is authenticated and traffic cannot be modified in flight. (And your children are less easily tracked by unknown 3rd parties, to boot.)

Authentication and integrity are often forgotten when discussing https, which is unfortunate because those are two incredibly important benefits that further motivate widespread https deployment.