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culiyesterday at 10:47 PM1 replyview on HN

When you visit an HTTP site, browsers give you a warning screen alongside an option to "open anyways".

We could do the same with sites that are not 100% correct. User are already used to having to click "Open anyways" for older, non HTTPS, sites anyways


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Bratmonyesterday at 11:04 PM

Browsers briefly tried that in the early 00s. It turns out that, from a user perspective, that's an incredibly stupid question- the user has no way of knowing how well the page works until they click "yes"!