


Now You: Blocking file downloads without notification, good thing to protect users or user unfriendly behavior? A clear warning, with the option to override, should be displayed instead, as users should be in control of the browser and not the other way around. The right-click bypass may work for now, but it is not clear that it does and many users may not identify it as the sole option in Chrome to download blocked files. Users who don't know about the Developer Tools won't know why a file cannot be downloaded in Chrome. The blocked file types implementation lacks clarity and information. Whether the plugins or extensions will pick up the download is another question though, as a blocked download may not be picked up anymore, but right-clicking, saving the URL and pasting it manually in the download manager should work regardless of the browser's blocking settings. A program like Internet Download Manager, uGet, or Xtreme Download Manager will continue to download files from HTTP sources. For now, a browser like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Brave, Vivaldi, the new Edge, or Opera all allow the download. Most browsers will follow Google's implementation however and block insecure downloads.

Chrome does not display a notification and there is virtually no information that explains what is happening, or not happening in this case. You click on the download link and nothing happens. If you have upgraded the Google Chrome browser to version 86, released on October 6, 2020, you may have noticed that some file downloads don't work anymore in the browser.
