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> What I hate the most it's how the try to scam no savvy tech people, like grandparents and Oh, that's my utter bane. My mom knows better, I've taught her how
by knodi123 4y ago
> What I hate the most it's how the try to scam no savvy tech people, like grandparents and
Oh, that's my utter bane. My mom knows better, I've taught her how the manipulations work, and then she'll show me a pertinent article on her tablet, and see an utterly outrageous clickbait link from Outbrain or Taboola or the like, like "This mom found out her kids were smoking WHAT?!" and pictures of some bugs or whatever.
And she'll get a guilty and tortured expression and say "Oh, I know they're probably manipulating me, but I have to find out what this is about." No!!! You really don't have to!
I tried to sneakily install ublock, but I made ONE mistake when trying to add a custom filter on a site she regularly visits, which broke her user experience for 3 minutes before I fixed it, and she demanded I immediately uninstall the "hacker programs".
- pontilanda 4y agoThe sad thing about clickbait is that it works wonders, and you'll never guess what happens next!
- knodi123 4y agoShoot, I know you're probably being silly, but I have to ask, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?!?!?
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoMy grandmother was like that with the National Enquirer and Weekly World News. She knew it was fake garbage but she couldn't resist reading it and you could tell some of it did end up sinking into her mind as being true on some level. But at least those tabloids weren't tracking her. She bought them at the grocery store each week so they didn't even have her on a mailing list. I do believe they had some scammy ads in the back of each issue but I don't recall that ever being a problem for her. Granddad had no interest and just kept to his Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines, both of which at times had articles and ads of questionable quality but were far better than the tabloids and modern online clickbait.