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> This figure of 4-10% of connections is meaningless here, either you're intercepted or you're not. The warning would only matter for websites that bother to implement certificate pinning.

Most Google properties use key pinning in some form (though AFAIK through static pins rather than HTTP headers). I would suspect that most users in that group would see such a warning at least daily.

> I don't really know how widespread key pinning is [...]

"Visitors may be presented with a warning if they're behind a middlebox and you deploy HPKP" would probably be a good way to slow down HPKP deployment even further.




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