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Re:Ask HN: How do you protect your parents from tech scammers? by thrownaway954 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:24AM (#21935532)
i will say that i also install and configure ublock origin on all the browsers that i and my parents use. it's surprising how many times, just innocent web browsing gets you in trouble cause of ads and drive by malware.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you protect your parents from tech scammers? by franga2000 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:57AM (#21935814)
+1 for ad blockers - installing one (I use uBo as well) on the computers I "manage" must've saved my relatives 100s of € in falling for scams. I'm sure of this, because a month ago Facebook pushed a bypass for ad blockers and within days, one of my relatives almost lost 300€. What saved her was her poor understanding of English - she called me to translate something for her and I immediately smelled a scam.
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