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Also such sites sometimes play audio instructions trying to scare or deceive a user.
by codedokode 8y ago
Also such sites sometimes play audio instructions trying to scare or deceive a user.
- Someone1234 8y agoI've had relatives tricked by this and called the number for "Microsoft Support." They were using Chrome. Clicking on the browser outside of the page area resulted in the tab going full screen again somehow, and they used multiple other tricks to make the page impossible to close (e.g. looping message boxes). I don't think browser vendors take these issues very easy. But when I tell relatives to hit the escape key and it DOESN'T work, it isn't helpful.
- codedokode 8y agoAlso, Escape key won't work if you had pressed F11 to switch to a fullscreen mode. Furthermore, browsers like Opera remember this setting and restore fullscreen mode (along with the page content) even after restart. I saw a case when a user somehow has opened a page with ads in fullscreen mode (probably it was done for watching a movie) and it was restored even after exiting and restarting the browser. So I killed the browser with Task Manager, restarted it and the fullscreen ads appeared again. I (an experienced user) couldn't quickly figure out that it was actually a fullscreen mode, couldn't understand why the browser doesn't launch and thought it was some kind of virus in the system. I figured it out only when I tried to move mouse upwards and a browser UI appeared.