Hacker News Reader

Comment by ketralnis | Hacker News Reader

It is actually blocked. The program is prevented from launching. You can go into the security settings and approve it and then relaunch it (which last I saw, the error message didn't even tell you how to do anymore), but it's not just a "approve/deny?" skippable screen.

View on HN

Pro tip, right click the app and click "Open" in the menu to get a version of the dialog with an approve button. No need to go into settings.

By that same logic, non-hsts SSL certificate expiration warnings are browsers "blocking" you from visiting a website, despite the buttons that allow you to bypass it.

They are blocking you.

In Chrome, it's even more complicated. You have to click the very small "More/Advanced Settings" text which doesn't even really look like a button. After that, a button allowing you to proceed appears, but upon clicking you are given a very scary warning.

Sometimes you have to type "thisisunsafe" to bypass the block. Not in any field, just type it with the tab focused.

It's not the same. In the SSL case the browser gives you a bypass button, which is fine (if hidden). Here, there is no bypass button unless you have the secret knowledge to open the app in a certain way.

Otherwise the OS entirely refuses to open the app with no bypass button or hint as to how to get around it, while implying "security issues" and "untrustworthiness"

For certain cert errors in Chrome, there is no button/link to ignore and continue. You actually have to type "thisisunsafe" into the tab. There is no feedback when you are typing this. It will just navigate to the page you were trying to reach as soon as you finish typing.

Yeah sure. It seems we're arguing about vocabulary, not functionality

Reply on news.ycombinator.com