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Re:Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at ... by enedil on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:04PM (#27018996)
The real popup in Chrome and Firefox exceeds the website frame, so you can easily distinguish it.
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Re:Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at ... by la_fayette on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:23PM (#27019167)
I am convinced, by many real world observations, that the average joe user cannot distinguish fake html/css/js popups from OS popups.
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Re:Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at ... by wazoox on Monday May 03, 2021 @09:57AM (#27025119)
Case in point, countless relatives calling "I have a virus on my computer!" because they have a Windows-XP popup on a website "you have a virus" (they are on Windows 10, or Mac OS).
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