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by danielheath 940 days ago
Browsers are allowed to ask permission to remove them if they are compromised.

They still have to receive that permission before they can do it.

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I believe it is well understood by now that users tend to ignore security warnings; anyone serious about computer security will not accept this as a solution. We don't even apply security-critical patches reliably.
Lately I've found browsers no longer let me click past SSL errors (at least, not without digging deep through the settings panel first).