Every once in a while I help a family member or friend out with their machine and am stunned when I see the web without an adblocker. It honestly reminds me of the malicious early 2000s porn and “free downloads” sites… but it’s everywhere now, like cnn and eBay and shit. First thing I do is install Firefox and ublock origin, and mostly for their security.
Youtube has also been running basically porn ads on “for kids” youtube channels as well and my kindergarten aged niece and nephew have been exposed to that shit. Adblock is 100% cyber security AND for kids safety.
This is how I got so good at computer IT stuff as a kid. Had to constantly clear our family computer of viruses and reinstall windows multiple times a year because my brothers would always download shit like “The fast and the furious-no-virus.mpg.exe”
If it was a real failure, there wouldn’t be a need to address it. It would be self evident.
As someone who mostly had dogs growing up but now have two cats, I can support that. Haha
That’s a really good point, and most of the dog posts I’ve seen have been in “aww” while cats have “cat” that seems to at times dominate the top posts even while not logged in
Them and stamets. They both basically got me and my wife watching TNG for the first time with all the memes (only seen voyager before that) and we are loving every minute of it