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Google to bury indicator for Extended Validation certs in Chrome because users barely took notice

Mike 137 Silver badge

Re: because users barely took notice

They're in good company. Microsoft hid file extensions (ironically originally a Microsoft invention) "to avoid confusing users" decades back, opening the floodgates to malware.

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