How are URLs "not usable"? Yes lots of sites use them badly, but they're the way you cite sources. Obscuring them is going to make things much worse, not better.
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People don't look at them when they ought to. And when they do, they don't know which part to look at. We are exploring ways of drawing attention to the right identity indicators at the right times.
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‘We’ = a small elite group of young elite engineers with very little historical knowledge of the fantastic decentralised empowering nature of the URL
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Youre right, we shouldn't design for ourselves. That's why our first step is months of user research!
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It's easy for research to focus on solving what doesn't work, and ignore the (equally if not more important) aspect of *not breaking what does work*.
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agree with Rich. sounds like the problem is not enough education. teach kids how to browse, code, use social media, practice internet safety, etc. then they’ll grow up and make the web better. sometimes a “problem” can’t be “fixed” with a cool new browser feature. it takes time.
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Solving problems via education doesn't scale. But there are better approaches that do.
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that may be so, but solutions via education are long-lasting. i’m a big-picture, bottom-up kind of thinker.
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No, they're irrelevant by the time they're finished. It'd be like educating kids about the risks of buying from door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen.
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But a general template to be wary of door to door solicitations that are extrapolated to all forms of communication would remain relevant. Think of how classes are designed in C++ and then create a template which can be built upon.
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Attack and defense scale differently. Whatever attacks you want to educate people to defend against, attackers will evolve new methods much more quickly. Education is not a solution.
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