An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it. So not only that online ads are intrusive and can infect devices through malware, they can also be used for spying.
An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it. So not only that online ads are intrusive and can infect devices through malware, they can also be used for spying.
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.
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. Because “it worked fine the last time you touched it, and now it’s broken. Clearly I didn’t do anything to break it, so it must have been you” is a scarily common train of thought.
I am so fucking glad that part of my life is over. I think the last time a family member asked me for advice I spent an hour pontificating on how shit Windows is and to just install Linux and Teamviewer so I wouldn’t have to listen to them drone on and on about nonsense we nerds have been yelling about for two decades.
Now whenever something stupid comes up even in a passing conversation I can just say, “I am an engineer. I work on a very small set of problems every day and none of them are related to desktops anymore. Sorry.”
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.
After my mom almost fell for a few iPhone adverts, I put a piHole on her home network and that solved most issues. I don’t have to teach her how to enable and disable ublock origin when her websites don’t render correctly.