&gt; T-Mobile degrades video quality<p>SSL cannot prevent this. The connection can still be slowed down and video quality will be automatically degraded. They don&#x27;t reencode streams on the fly or anything, just degrade bandwidth and let the applications do the rest. The reencoding and DRM cracking needed to do the former would be an insane investment of man-hours and CPU resources, even if they didn&#x27;t use SSL.<p>Additionally a bunch of these &quot;reasons&quot; are just artificial restrictions imposed by web browsers. If it weren&#x27;t for letsencrypt providing free certs without any ID checks like other free cert places I&#x27;d be complaining about it.