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One benefit of HTTPS is that ISPs can't insert their ads onto your website. Believe me, there are ISPs that do that.

> If your ISP is MITMing you, I think you have bigger problems then whether they change the content of my static site when you visit it.

Perhaps. But in the UK ISPs are legally required to log every web page you visit. However, they are not going to serve you a fake version of Chrome (which is signed anyway).




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