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Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method by sandworm101 on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:30PM (#19769160)
Except all the colorblind people who have altered their system defaults enough that anything internal to the browser will look very out of place.
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Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method by Terretta on Sunday April 28, 2019 @09:05AM (#19770947)
You could always try pulling their system colors in through CSS:

https://www.sitepoint.com/css-system-styles/

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Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method by saagarjha on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:48PM (#19769227)
Having the entire web be unaccessible is a somewhat poor compromise, though…
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Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method by benj111 on Sunday April 28, 2019 @02:27AM (#19769684)
Or Linux users.
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Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method by washadjeffmad on Sunday April 28, 2019 @09:38AM (#19771099)
Which have a lower overall usage of the proprietary chrome browser, as well.

Firefox is the pre-install default for most distros, and only Chromium is provided in default repos.

They're also significantly more likely to use some form of ad and JS blocking.

So until the appearance changes based on the UA and system theme (and maybe can read bookmarks and plugins), this trick mostly affects mobile Chrome users.

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