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> Mainly this was propagated by EV cert sellers, but it was all kinda silly.

I feel like it really started back in early(ish) days of online shopping. I remember "never enter your credit card details without looking for the lock icon" being drilled into people.

EV certs definitely took this idea farther, especially as domain-validated certs became more common & cheaper.




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