alt Hacker News> Call me old-school, but I really liked how EV certs looked in the browser.
I agree, making EV Certs visually more important makes sense to people who know what it means and what it doesn't. Too bad they never made it an optional setting.
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arccy • yesterday at 8:36 PM
i think the point was that EV didn't actually mean anything because the checks were too loose. it's a feel good false sense of security
When you request an EV. They call you by the phone number that you give to ask if you requested a certificate. That was the complete extend of the validation. I could be a scammer with a specificity designed domain name and they would just accept it, no questions asked.