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by scns 1773 days ago
From the first comment below the article:

> The Safari team did quite a lot of work re-styling their alerts and dialogs to be within the context of the webpage, yet phishing and scams that utilize this still run rampant on iOS. Repeated alerts are used to lock up the browser and make it unusable, forcing non-technical users to call a scam telephone number because they think their device was hacked.

A few bad actors ruining it even for totally different usecases.

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> A few bad actors ruining it even for totally different usecases.

Same thing happened to Do Not Track... that was used for fingerprinting