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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DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social 11 months agothe first two is literally just download and forget about it, but I'll give you needing some know-how on the others
Bebo@literature.cafe 11 months ago
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.
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.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This and don’t ever tell co-workers your into computers either. They will ask for say, laptop recommdations so because you like them you do a little research and send them some links. 6 months later they’ll come back asking for another recommendation because they didn’t buy anything when they last asked! This has happened to me more times than I care to think about. Totally annoys me.