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I may be wrong, but it made sense to me: * Visiting site with HTTP, there's no expectation of encryption / comms security. So there's no need for warning. * V
by NikolaNovak 5y ago
I may be wrong, but it made sense to me:
* Visiting site with HTTP, there's no expectation of encryption / comms security. So there's no need for warning.
* Visiting site with HTTPS, there's expectation of encryption / comms security, so please let me know if it's not working as intended or there are warning signs.
That being said, I'm at the crossroads of "little knowledge is a dangerous thing". Vast majority of my friends and family would not know HTTP is not encrypted... but they also won't even bother reading an experied cert warning and will just click to proceed.
(on a broader level, working in operations has underlined to me that default user behaviour with any modal dialog, window, warning, error, is to click everything until something works. There is no reason whatsoever to read or understand WHAT was clicked, or pay it any attention later, other than remembering which thing was clicked. It's an entirely binary world of "things that when you click them don't make it work" and "things that when you click them make things work". There is literally no other useful information for most users)
- lazide 5y agoAlso, that most people will not remember what option they clicked as little as the instant they click it and the window goes away.