[xofer]

I'm in the US and for years wrote software for the medical industry. I was contracted by a European company to write an app, and of course filled it with disclaimers and extra clicks asking "Are you sure?" When I demoed it, they asked what all that crap was for. I said something like, "Umm, liability, duh." Their response: "Oh, we don't sue people for honest mistakes here."

[ido]

I just want to mention this in case someone reads your comment and does something inadvisable: "European" is an insufficiently general term. Some countries in Europe are more litigious than others.

[ghaff]

Furthermore, while confirmation prompts can certainly be taken to an extreme (and they probably don't do much good if people get inured to just clicking "Yes"), they absolutely make sense for some operations.

[nickelcitymario]

That's wild! I'm in Canada, which I generally consider to be much less litigious than the US and A, but we still cover our bases for liability all the time.