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So browsers should just let users go to obvious phishing sites? It's easy to take this position when you're very tech savvy. Imagine how many billions of less
by TulliusCicero 6y ago
So browsers should just let users go to obvious phishing sites?
It's easy to take this position when you're very tech savvy. Imagine how many billions of less tech savvy people these kinds of blocklists are protecting.
It's very easy to imagine a different kind of article being written: "How Google and Mozilla let their users get scammed".
- ehsankia 6y agoI mean, it was barely a decade ago when my parents computers regularly got filled with malware and popups and scams. They regularly fell for bullshit online. Maybe they have gotten more savvy, but I feel like this has overall greatly decreased, in a world where there's actually increasingly more bad actors.
- greggman3 6y agoEven if you're tech savvy. I've been phished. I was only saved by 2 factor and luck. https://blog.greggman.com/blog/getting-phished/ https://blog.greggman.com/blog/getting-phished/