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This happens with regularity, it seems. I guess the bill isn't being paid in a timely fashion. I wonder how long it will be unavailable this time.
This is obviously unsafe and generally bad idea. Don't do that on any important pages.
Basically what Kitsunelegend said. The head admin is MIA and there is nobody to update the certificate (which needs to be done every 90 days).
On desktop Firefox, I can get around it by doing the following. I haven't tried it on mobile Firefox.
NEVER DO THE BELOW FOR A BANK, CREDIT CARD, PAYPAL, OR ANYTHING IMPORTANT. If a site like that breaks, call them on the telephone or try it again the next day, instead of doing this.
1. Try to go to the site with the problem. Firefox should put up a screen that says "Your connection is not secure".
2. Click on the "Advanced" button on that screen.
3. Probably a box will appear that says "example.com uses an invalid security certificate", with a recent expiration date. This box will have an "Add Exception..." button at the bottom. Click that button.
4. A window titled "Add security exception" will pop up. I clear the "Permanently store this exception" checkbox at the bottom, to make the exception temporary.
5. Click the "Confirm security exception" button at the bottom of the "Add security exception" window.
6. The "Add security exception" window will close itself, and the site you wanted should load.
If you want to remove the exception later, it's under Preferences > Advanced > View Certificates > Servers. For me, the exceptions are always on the top of the list; I pick the one I want to get rid of and hit the Delete button.
Again, NEVER DO THE ABOVE FOR A BANK, CREDIT CARD, PAYPAL, OR ANYTHING IMPORTANT. If a site like that breaks, call them on the telephone or try it again the next day, instead of doing this.
Apparently one can override HSTS in at least some versions of Firefox - see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/q.....stions/1159143 . It looks like you'd have to do what it says in that post, and then you'd get the option to add an exception again. I haven't tried it, though.
https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/cl.....hrome-firefox/ gives another option to override HSTS in Firefox, from the History window. Again, I haven't tried this.
The idea of having the switch buried in a text file in the profile directory is kind of scary for end users, probably because it's meant to be scary. I think developers are still going to need that switch to exist for another year or two, though. Some of them have to use a host (it rhymes with StopMomma) that still thinks an SSL certificate costs $70 a year, and sabotages attempts to use Let's Encrypt.