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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by nkkollaw on Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:05PM (#13440949)
They probably think they have to give their email to see the site.

We are power users, a lot of people have no idea what they're doing on the web.

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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by blauditore on Friday January 20, 2017 @03:58AM (#13442491)
Yes, I even think there's a large amount of users that, when shown a random popup "please enter your password to continue", would just enter the password they use for every service, making phishing quite trivial.
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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by nkkollaw on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:27AM (#13442583)
Definitely.
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