Comment on Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware
DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social 11 months agoyep... no defense at all...
I really wish there was something that works against them
it really sucks that there isn't
maybe someone will come along eventually and solve this problem
https://openwrt.org/supported_devices
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking
aceshigh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It takes some savviness to do this. Most people aren’t techy enough.
DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social 11 months ago
the first two is literally just download and forget about it, but I'll give you needing some know-how on the others
aceshigh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
it’s scary for people who don’t understand it. i would never ask my parents to get it because i know that any errors or whatever their computer will get will get blamed on the extension and get blamed on me.
Dagrothus@reddthat.com 11 months ago
You wouldn’t ask your boomer parents to block ads that will likely get them to install viruses or get scammed? They are easily the demographic that would benefit the most from ublock.
Bebo@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Thing is most people are unaware of the harmful nature of ads and don’t care to do anything to block them.