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The real popup in Chrome and Firefox exceeds the website frame, so you can easily distinguish it.



I am convinced, by many real world observations, that the average joe user cannot distinguish fake html/css/js popups from OS popups.


Case in point, countless relatives calling "I have a virus on my computer!" because they have a Windows-XP popup on a website "you have a virus" (they are on Windows 10, or Mac OS).




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