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Users inundated with pop-ups
Scott Granneman, 2005-12-12

There are many examples where users are now being inundated with pop-up messages asking them to respond to things they don't know about or don't understand, and it leads to weaker security overall.

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Pop-up Fatigue 2006-06-27
Andrew
Desensitisation is a real issue, I call this Pop-up Fatigue.

We should develop more 'engineered' ways of dealing with this issue. Both the Firefox delay, Firefox default no warnings and IE default continue warnings all have flaws.

Importantly we must reduce the number of distinct pop-ups, and ...

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