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> In particular, our research indicates that users often associate this icon with a site being trustworthy, when in fact it's only the connection that's secure
by pupppet 5y ago
> In particular, our research indicates that users often associate this icon with a site being trustworthy, when in fact it's only the connection that's secure.
Never really thought about that, but I guess it's pretty obvious. I can totally see my folks downloading/buying god-knows-what from a site because they see that lock icon.
- cunthorpe 5y agoThey started realizing this when HTTPS was becoming common thanks to Let’s Encrypt and slowly started removing any greenness and “Secure” label from the URL bar in favor of doing the opposite: marking insecure websites in red. This last change is obvious and needed but was probably left as a last step because people have been taught to look for it at some point. Glad to see it gone, even just ‘cause Safari puts it in the middle of the URL bar and I keep clicking on it by mistake. Hopefully they’ll drop it to by 2024