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  • Notifications are really inappropriate mechanisms here. Focus stealing, with some apps, occurs on a constant basis (e.g. Messenger using Android screen overlays), so notifications would infuriate users. There has to be some control of who is allowed to steal focus (via complete mediation and setting appropriate policies for each app), and the ability to disable it when an app is receiving input it deems sensitive (a reason why Android blocks changing security settings when a screen overlay app is active). Commented Nov 5, 2016 at 15:53
  • I meant non intrusive notifications like android is offering. Commented Nov 5, 2016 at 15:56
  • Oops, sorry! I read too quickly! This would not provide much of a useful role however, I suspect. You don't think to look at your status bar to check if some overlay is opened when typing some password in, just like you don't look at certificate status icons when going onto a new website. Passive notifications fail because looking at them is not part of the normal journey of the user's focus in any task they perform. Commented Nov 5, 2016 at 16:21
  • Certificate warnings are meant to interrupt the users flow. This is not what the OP had in mind i think. Commented Nov 6, 2016 at 7:48
  • Yeah, and they came along because the previous passive notification approch failed to deliver. Commented Nov 6, 2016 at 14:06