For me it’s the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they’re being spied. Here’s the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won’t use it or haven’t used it in a while.

They, whoever it is, can’t really spy on you on something that’s already off and unplugged!

  • Frozyre@kbin.melroy.orgOP
    18·
    3 months ago

    I’m pretty positive by this point that people love to bitch about ads for the sake of bitching about ads. They bring this onto themselves.

    Same goes for them going onto sites without ad blockers. Then when you tell them, it’s either “OHHH THANKS!” or “Uhhhh, I cAn’t” for no reason.

    • Persen@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 months ago

      Or people, like my mom, who are were relatively educated about technology and don’t want to learn new technologies/tools under the pretense of security (even if the software is foss, like again most adblockers.

      Edit: Whenever I use a browser without an adblocker, I remember how shitty the web is without them.

      • tehmics@lemmy.world
        7·
        3 months ago

        My mom built computers in the '90s and '00s, she taught me how to use the command prompt to play my dos games. now she can barely use one. I don’t know what the hell happened.

        • Persen@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 months ago

          Well, my mom is a computer engieneer, who had me reflash a phone from work and install libreoffice on her windows laptop (to be fair none of her coworkers could reflash the phone and the second one was probably just lazyness).