alt Hacker NewsUnfortunately “are you sure?” checks simply don't work, too many people are trained to just click yes/OK to close the message and get back to what they were trying to do.
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Jtarii • today at 12:05 PM
Well, it sounds like those people are just too stupid to own phones at all then.
hahn-kev • today at 12:01 PM
The number of times I've seen people blow though prompts which directly refer to the issue they are coming to me about... SMH
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"are you sure" checks work if you force deliberate effort on the part of the user.
Imagine having to type "I want to get hacked" on a keyboard layout which randomizes with every character.