alt Hacker NewsIncorrect. For us as tech people this is an option. My older family members will definitely install malware and send all their data to China.
Please don’t let me go back to the early days of the internet where my mother had 50 toolbars and malware installed
> Please don’t let me go back to the early days of the internet where my mother had 50 toolbars and malware installed
I removed hundreds of toolbars from my mother/grandmother/anyone computer.
I still prefer that to techno-fascism where it's ok for companies to brick my hardware remotely, to lock me out of all my hardware because I have a picture of my kid in a bath, to read all my messages for whatever reason, to extract value from my personal files, pictures, musical tastes, to not allow me to install an app I bought because it have been removed from the store, to not allow me to install an app my friend created, to not allow me to create an app and sell it myself, to not allow me to not do the action ever but just "Later this week", and so on and so on.
This toolbar thing is a wrong excuse. And it was 90% because Windows was shitty.
Most mothers would have easily downloaded and installed crapware embedded with whatever they downloaded, but most mothers aren't doing to go to "Settings > About > Tap 10 times on OS version > Bootloader > Disable Bootloader protection > "Are you sure because your phone will become insecure ?" > Yes > Fucking yes.
And if they still do it to purposefully install malware, I'm sorry to say they are just stupid and I cannot care less about the toolbars.