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Giacomo Tesio • Edited

most regular people who use the Web don't really care about security.
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Because of this, there isn't much pressure on browser developers to radically re-imagine browser security.

True.

Most people do not understand networking enough to ponder the risks.

But why we setup SSL certificates?
Why we teach them to not execute programs they receive in email?

We try to protect them.

To some, it's just a matter of empty marketing.
Others do that as part of a strategy toward centralization or for fear of Law.
Others do that because... they cannot do otherwise.

There's a lot more pressure on them to make things convenient and easy.

This cannot be a justification, however.

And a safer JavaScript that people opt-in on a web site basis wouldn't make the web worse, but better: easier to use and more convenient to most people.