The author is aware of this. At the bottom of the article:
> Please don’t contact me to “well ackchyually” me and explain MITM attacks and how your terrible ISP inserts ads into your unencrypted web pages
> Please don’t contact me to “well ackchyually” me and explain MITM attacks and how your terrible ISP inserts ads into your unencrypted web pages
Again, a proxy solves the problem for old devices without sacrificing security.