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OV does not put the name in the address bar.

OV requires users actually open the certificate (assuming browser support), hit "details", then scroll down to the Subject section. Then, if there is an O= section there, you can read the Organisation name. That field is missing in a DV cert.

The CA industry wants us to believe the average user does this regularly, in order to determine trust in a website. It's absurd.



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