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Prominent? A crossed over lock icon in the address bar? Try again. A prominent warning would be something ridiculous, like a full page cover saying "THIS PLACE
by mstade 11y ago
Prominent? A crossed over lock icon in the address bar? Try again.
A prominent warning would be something ridiculous, like a full page cover saying "THIS PLACE IS NOT SECURE – HERE BE DRAGONS!" or something. Browser vendors should do more of this for egregious errors on the publisher's side. Unless users complain loudly that stuff is uncomfortable and broken and scary and what not, you can write articles like this every day of the week and publishers still won't do anything about it, and the only users to care will be the geeks who understand what the damn icon means in the first place.
- _jomo 11y agoWould be an interesting thing to do as a network operator - doing MITM to alert people about the dangers of HTTP.
- y4mi 11y agothey're already doing it - for different reasons though there have been reports of replaced adds on unrelated pages with banners from the ISP and similar things
- detaro 11y agoUse to many prominent warnings and people learn that they happen all the time and ignore them. It's a fine balance, and browser vendors invest a lot of effort in it (I know the chrome team had papers/talks on quite a few conferences about the topic)