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Check with your parents or non-technical friends. You will be definitely surprised.

• type0 6y ago
  Checked, they said adblockers were difficult to use and gave scary browser permission messages. One friend said he was afraid Google would shut down his account if they found out that he was "cheating youtube of their ads". Might sound strange to some but when you teach users that their PC isn't really theirs to control (Windows EULA or Chromebook TOS) you get this kind of chilling effects and it's only getting worse.
• ljm 6y ago
  My mum used to love pirating films over bittorrent on her malware-addled laptop, before burning them to DVD. She'd always yell up to me asking to help unfuck her machine, which was obviously often and very frustrating for a young adult such as myself at the time. There was no adblock and I couldn't fathom why she was happy scrolling through pages of pornographic ads with tumescent penises, masturbating women, and ads for all those social media rip offs like fuckbook. She just didn't acknowledge it. You couldn't convince her otherwise...nothing would come between her and her torrents and hidden object games. Pretty sad, really.
• MH15 6y ago
  This. The first thing I do when setting up a computer for a non-technical family member is install Chrome and uBlock Origin. I personally use Firefox but it hasn't been worth the trouble to try and have them use that. When the only thing on your laptop is Chrome it usually runs without issue.
• zerr 6y ago
  That's the thing - we (technical people) help others, and this includes installing or recommending an ad blocker.