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Do you really think so? I think in practice, if every website you visited made you click 10-50 pop ups the first time you went to the site, people would start to blindly click without reading, and it would be even easier to slip a malicious pop up request by a user. While you might want to believe that a user would actually think about what they are accepting, reality is almost all don't. Even the more security minde…

No, I don't expect most users would care. Most users wouldn't care if sites could execute native code as root on their machine. I think, if there was a prompt, content providers that cared, even a little bit, about presentation would think real hard before introduction that prompt. The way it works now, providers very rarely think twice about adding it. And I think ad networks, trackers and all the other useless, JS…

If human nature doesn't allow a solution to be viable, it is useless to blame human nature. You need a different solution.

Re: Show HN: Copyfish – Extract text from images, videos or PDF

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No, I don't expect most users would care. Most users wouldn't care if sites could execute native code as root on their machine. I think, if there was a prompt, content providers that cared, even a little bit, about presentation would think real hard before introduction that prompt. The way it works now, providers very rarely think twice about adding it. And I think ad networks, trackers and all the other useless, JS…

If human nature doesn't allow a solution to be viable, it is useless to blame human nature. You need a different solution.

An argument against building A.I. because the simplest solution to that is to eliminate humans from the equation.

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Did you create this account just to answer this question? I am curious.

Yes. Does it sound like shameless promotion to you? Maybe it is, but some people might have a need for this (and it's relevant to the topic/comment).

Promotion - Yes. Shameless - No. (This is what I think) I am just curious. I sure love the idea of this extension. If I need to use something like this I atleast know a handy extension for this now.
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