This specific example may be new, but the concept of fooling users with websites containing images of the system's own UI is not new --- for example, all the fake antivirus alert boxes. That had a relatively easy mitigation --- using non-default appearance on your system (e.g. an XP-style "you have a virus!" dialog box image would just look silly if you weren't using XP with the default theme), but it seems the trend toward un-customisability is just going to lead to this being even more easy to exploit.
Of course, mobile browsers hiding important information and being even more un-customisable makes this worse.
Well, even I, as the creator of the inception bar, found myself accidentally using it!
When reading a product's documentation that has screenshots explaining how to do something, I've also accidentally tried to manipulate them instead of the actual dialogs. I'm sure others here have had similar experiences too.
This specific example may be new, but the concept of fooling users with websites containing images of the system's own UI is not new --- for example, all the fake antivirus alert boxes. That had a relatively easy mitigation --- using non-default appearance on your system (e.g. an XP-style "you have a virus!" dialog box image would just look silly if you weren't using XP with the default theme), but it seems the trend toward un-customisability is just going to lead to this being even more easy to exploit.
Of course, mobile browsers hiding important information and being even more un-customisable makes this worse.
Well, even I, as the creator of the inception bar, found myself accidentally using it!
When reading a product's documentation that has screenshots explaining how to do something, I've also accidentally tried to manipulate them instead of the actual dialogs. I'm sure others here have had similar experiences too.