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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by eyelidlessness on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @11:57AM (#12166516)
Years of education have been horribly ineffective, which is why phishing continues to work. Meanwhile, the ignorant audience keeps growing. A whole lot of UX work is about making ambiguous things less ambiguous and making the "right" or "safe" choice the default. In those scenarios, the best UX will make the non-default choice available with some additional effort (changing settings, diving deeper), which this feature in Safari absolutely does.

Hang on to your hat, because every other browser has been playing with the exact same feature, for the exact same set of reasons.

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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by gutnor on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @04:00PM (#12168357)
> Years of education have been horribly ineffective

It should be obvious by just looking how social engineering is working and have been using the same tricks for literally thousands of years. Classic children literature, before modernisation (like Disney), gives you a good idea on the same lessons needed to be taught then.

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