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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (20 children)

My late 50s mum happily signs up with her Facebook to everything. Meanwhile it's often the people in their late 20s to 30s who were introduced to computers during their youth before everything had super streamlined GUIs who know enough about software that they realize this is a privacy concern, what internet privacy means, and why it's important. People who are older or younger than that have to go out of their way to learn how and why to look behind the easy interfaces. That's my experience and explanation at least.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My young family members are the worst, they just click "yes" to everything, regardless of any effort I've made to explain how things work.

Any barrier to convenience is too frustrating to them. They don't like even using full applications in their laptops, always say "wheres the app, this is too complex". ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that's not just young people that's 80~90% of users

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You're not wrong. Ffs.

I'd say you made the point better than any of us.

I know some network security folks, in their 40's, who've literally said "I don't want to be inconvenienced" when discussing why they tolerate this invasive shit.

Motherfucker, your job is securing networks. You know first hand the kind of shit going on out there.

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