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What is the best way to tell users "you are not authorized to view this data" without sounding rude

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  • 15
    F*ck off m8
  • 10
    Just send them the classic 403, they'll never know what happened and they won't be offended.
  • 3
    You are too dumb to look at it
  • 1
    @WinterCore But they'll write bug reports instead
  • 1
    "This page is currently not available, please check back later."

    But then your users might come to you from time to time and asks you, when it will be "available" again, and you just go with "soon".
  • 11
    There's always the gentlemanly way.

    Oopsy woopsy we had a fucky wucky
  • 2
    @WinterCore we actually give the users 404, so they think the page doesn't even exist.
  • 1
    Disable the link as such ???
  • 0
    Its actually an analytics portal.. Imagine google analytics.. Only a part of the graph is not visible coz he doesn't have access to that part
  • 4
    "This part of the website is not available in your country"
  • 4
    "You have to pay 100.000€ in order to access this page"
  • 0
    @7400 All they do is complain, they'll just have to deal with it, life is hard, nothing is perfect 🤔
  • 2
    "you are not authorized to view this data"
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  • 0
    @bashleigh u feel an average non technical person understands 403
    ??
  • 1
    @vgpranav then they should educate themselves. Not my fault they don't know :p
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