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Users are tuned to seeing green icon, and secure as trustworthy. This is over a decade of UX towards these. Suddenly seeing "Not secure" will definitely have an impact on engagement. (I know we're both guessing -- we'll have to wait for concrete numbers to make a call). I'd mark the engagement change at around 10%, and 20% for any site that is login/payments related.


they have been seeing that for months now ( i see it often too on sites that are slow to change). I have not heard anyone complaining about loss of traffic. It's becoming transparent to the users, imho, like the EU cookie prompt.


It's not red yet. It will look like this eventually.: https://www.wordfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-im... , which will be a stronger negative signal.




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