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Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by fullstop on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:57AM (#47003428)
My daughter did this for her boyfriend's grandma, except she used Kinoite. The immutable aspect of it makes it very difficult to break.

She was over there recently and the downloads folder was littered with malware .exe files, so the grandma is trying her hardest to break it.

Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by abdullahkhalids on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:21AM (#47003692)
UBlock origin will fix most of that problem.
Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by kgermino on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:34AM (#47003846)
But it creates other issues, especially for a non-techsavvy user
Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by abdullahkhalids on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:52AM (#47004108)
Blocking ads helps grandma not accidentally leak private information that could have disastrous consequences, for example, getting scammed out of their money.

Not blocking ads helps grandma visit a few more websites that don't work well with adblock.

Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by array_key_first on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:11PM (#47005757)
I've never seen a website break because of ublock, at least not in the default config. If it's that much of a problem you can just remote in on grandmas computer and disable it for whatever website.

I think that beats remoting in when granny inevitably gets scammed by an ad.

There really is no excuse in my mind for not running an ad blocker. It's as vital to personal computing security as firewalls and anti malware.