Is there any way to Disable "secure" webites that use HTTPS?

When using the limited browsers available for Windows 98, such as
Firefox 2.x or IE6, it was bad enough trying to open many of the current
websites which are highly bloated with a lot of useless scripts and
other code. Now, it's gotten 100 times worse with so many websites
switching to "secure" mode, meaning they open with HTTPS rather than
HTTP.

I fully understood using security on websites where a person has to
enter a credit card number, such as Ebay, Amazon, and more. But now we
have sites such as Wikipedia opening everything with https. The biggest
joke is that most of the sites using this, are sites which were never
any threat for security. Wikipedia is a good example, when it contains
nothing but text and pictures.

It seems the entire internet has gone crazy with security crap. Not only
is this making it impossible to load most of these secure websites, (or
only part of the page opens), but I am on dialup, and these secure sites
load 2 or 3 times slower than the non-secure sites.

Even my old flip-phone, with limited internet ability, now pops up a
very annoying message repeatedly which says "Entering a non-secure
area". And this is not just to open a new website, it's within the same
page I am viewing presently. For example, if I'm viewing a weather radar
map on Accuweather, and click the ZOOM button to expand the radar map, I
get this most annoying message requiring me to hit the OK button.

But getting back to my computer, I have used several browsers over the
years. Firefox 2.x, K-meleon, Seamonkey are the three is used most. All
of these are now choking on these secure websites. (Or I can use Kernal
Ex and a slightly newer version of Firefox, which is still not able to
handle these new websites.

I also had installed "Slimbrowser" (a front end for IE), old Netscape,
and "Off By One". NONE of these work at all on these https sites.

I have manually tried to remove the "S" from HTTPS, and the site just
goes back to using the "S".

This is my last ditch effort to see if there is any possible way to stop
all this nonsense. Or, is there some browser which will still work on
Win98, and which actually can handle all this excessive security?

If not, I'm shutting off the internet at the end of this month, because
the web has become worthless. And to make matters worse, these
newsgroups are nearly dead too. That leaves email, and I dont really
need email, because I can just send a text from my cellphone, or make a
call. It's been several years since I could shop online, because of this
security crap, and now I cant even read a friggin Wiki page.

I guess the whole answer to solving malware issues on the internet, is
to make it impossible to use the web. That way, after enough people
leave, there wont be any more malware. Malware was always a risk, but at
least the internet was usable. Now, it's become worthless.

I should mention that due to my location, I can not get high-speed
internet. (At least not affordably). And my dialup connection ONLY
connects using Win98. It will not work properly using XP.

If anyone still reads this newsgroup, I'd appreciate any suggestions or
tips to stopping these secure websites, or to some Win98 browser that
will actually work. Thanks!



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