Comment on Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware

• 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

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’ve clearly never had to deal with the “you touched my computer 3 years ago and now it won’t turn on. Why did you break my computer” family members. One of the number one pieces of advice for people just starting in IT is to never work on family members’ computers. Because as soon as you agree to fix something, you’re now the person to blame when something stops working.

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  • 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.

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