> they are not displaying a popup But that's exactly my point! If you have set your browser to make all popups appear as a tab taking up the whole of your exis

> they are not displaying a popup But that's exactly my point! If you have set your browser to make all popups appear as a tab taking up the whole of your existing window (and adding an entry to your tab list), and then a fake one looks like a separate window, then it will stick out as fake immediately. For me, a browser-like window within the boundary of my actual browser is so foreign that I wouldn't even consider the possibility that it's real.