Learned a cute little trick on github today and figured I’d share in case there are others like me who didn’t know this.

If you are using a chrome/chromium based browser and hit a site with an expired certificate, you can click anywhere in the whitespace of the error page, type “thisisunsafe” (all one word), hit enter, and be brought to the page.

Right now https://nitter.net is having certificate issue so you can test it there.

Anyway, obviously be careful because bypassing a warning about an expired certificate is potentially dangerous.

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