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Pretty amazing that sites with such high daily revenue (close to UK 7000/day, just for IE) either weren't testing their checkout process in IE or didn't ever wonder "gee why am I getting this 'insecure content' popup and how can it be fixed?".


That's what I thought: they didn't need analytics, they could have prevented the problem with plain old testing.

Unfortunately, if you were a tester/SDET and caught that bug, you wouldn't be able to claim you saved the company half a million dollars.


Not to mention that there were almost certainly people who did see that pop-up and entered their credit card details anyway.


As mentioned at the bottom of the article -- if you click "yes" on the popup -- then you only got the secure data -- and didn't get the analytics code. And that quite possible 70% of the users did just that.




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