Users Ignoring Security Warnings
The cluster discusses how non-technical users habitually click through security warnings, popups, and alerts without reading them, leading to debates on warning fatigue, ineffectiveness of such prompts, and risks of false security senses.
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That's a novel claim, usually security experts are always complaining that people just click "accept" and ignore all the warnings of broken crypto and all that. How foolish they will feel when they realize that all that was missing was putting "GDPR" in the popup and people will automatically stop ignoring warnings!
Users would start to ignore the warnings and proceed anyway, or even turn safe browsing off.
User are generally not tech savy to bypass Smartscreen warning by themselves.
You've clearly never worked in tech support. People who are likely to go through the steps that OP described aren't going to read the warning.
Honestly with most users the opposite seems to happen. They get warning fatigue and start clicking YES on everything
What I disagree with is the characterization of the user as someone who a) cares[1], and b) doesn't realize they're clicking through something they don't understand. After all, they do it all the time on EULAs and when they ignore their "check engine" light.Could the message explain the problem better? Maybe, but when you characterize the user the way the parent did, you're not going to stop there, you're going to make them jump through all sorts of hoops or
That's a bad idea. People will always click through warning and permission screens; increasing the complexity of warning screens simply increases the likelihood that people will click through it without reading it.
Users can't be trusted. They don't read. You can put a popup that flashes in all caps saying "THIS WILL GIVE ACCESS TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT" and users will blindly click OK to get to whatever they think they want, be that an Instagram feed, a game, or whatever.https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030901-00/?p=42...It was tru
The smartest system still can't protect the dumbest users from themselves. Not a bug imo
We have decades of experience going back to Vista that this does not work.Users trust companies like Apple, Google etc not to place them in harm's way.And so when prompts like this are shown they will quite happily approve without even reading the words.