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> Besides I don't see why the admin would be hostile to the users being aware that they're being monitored.

Agreed. We could argue all day about companies who think they need to intercept traffic, but why would anyone who believed they had a legitimate reason to do so want to do so silently without any notification?

A persistent infobar near the address bar, for instance, would work nicely. And anyone working in a hostile environment with such monitoring imposed on them (a bank, for instance) would then have a much clearer warning that they shouldn't use their work device for anything they want to keep private.




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