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Then as a bonus, after you explain why they don't work - you can help them delete half the apps off their phone!

• akerl_ 7y ago
  I’m not sure if this was meant in jest, but ~“congrats, I broke your apps but don’t worry, you didn’t want those apps anyways because they’re bad for you” is unlikely to be an effective pitch. The much more likely outcome is that you’ll be marked as the odd duck in the family, and they’ll make a mental note to not let you handle their devices in the future. If the goal is to make people care more about privacy (or really anything), an approach that breaks existing workflows and shrugs off that breakage as being a good thing isn’t really a winning approach.
  • tripzilch 7y ago
    If you go in and expect to fight a losing battle ... or even just any battle. It's your family. My family already cares about privacy, they just find it incredibly hard to navigate the maze of settings and figure out what you can disable and what is hiding somewhere doing nasty useless shit. When I disable a setting for them, I ask if they use the feature, explain what it does. Or in many cases, we look it up together, because DAMN they made that shit hard to understand. I also ask what apps they use, and if I know any, suggest alternatives. Usually they're happy to get rid of a couple of useless apps that were giving notifications and other screen spam. In general they're happy that I help them. It's ridiculous that I have to, because my family is not dumb and they want to figure it out, it's just that if you don't deal with this shit every day, it's just a swamp and you tend to throw your hands in the air and give up.
  • close04 7y ago
    > and they’ll make a mental note to not let you handle their devices in the future That can be a blessing in disguise. :)