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The only studies are from a decade ago using the IE7 UI:

Then:

  https://paypal.com               Identified by Thawte
Compared to now:

  PayPal Inc [US] | https://paypal.com  
I'd love to either be able to do this ourselves or for the browsers to test the effectiveness of their own UIs.


> I'd love to either be able to do this ourselves or for the browsers to test the effectiveness of their own UIs.

That'd be pretty cool. A flag you could set (probably in head > meta) that instructs the browser to use a default padlock instead of a fancy EV name for display HTTPS info. That'd obviate the need to have two separate HTTPS endpoints for your app too. Combined with User-Agent verification you could infer what % of clients respect the flag and what % impact (if any) it has on their conversion habits.

Course I doubt browser vendors would be up for adding something like this. Would probably be a pain as the rendering code would be separate from the display of the overall chrome.




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