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19th July 2008 - Link Blog

The Truth about Web Navigation. Jeremy Zawodny on regular users understanding the browser address bar: “They don’t. And they never will.” Then they’re going to get phished, and there’s absolutely nothing we can do to help them.

Posted 19th July 2008 at 11:42 pm

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