I just don't get it why everything needs to be encrypted. It gives some false sence of security/privacy.

Pages that need login or personal details must be encrypted, that I understand.

But, if a news site that I am browsing is encrypted and still loads google analytics, facebook, twitter, $othertrackingjavascript what is the use?

I'm pretty much amazed there is no perl in the top 400.000 repos.

Last time I tried it I got a couple of hundred kByte/s. Not very fast, but doable. Wouldn't transfer dvd iso' with it ;-)