Non technical people struggle with these alot.

My mum regularly asks for help when all she's done is ignore the captcha thinking it's an advert because it stands out like a Google ad (different UI, different font, extra branding etc).

At least she's learnt to automatically ignore ads, but it comes with consequence of ignoring captchas as well...

The Internet as a whole has become very elderly unfriendly. Even the iPhone becomes an unnavigable mess once you’re trying to help someone 70+ work with it.

And continually changing UIs definitely don’t help.

The good news is that they’re adding a new accessibility mode

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...

In the HN thread , a lot of people were calling it the grandparent mode.

My parents are in their late sixties and travel internationally quite often and the lack of a physical SIM slot in new iPhones makes them not want to upgrade devices ever, because it would mean that they'd have to learn a whole new paradigm for installing and using eSIM when they're not very tech literate.

I'm getting older myself and every day this comic becomes more and more pertinent: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/12/one-day-in-the...