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rightbyte 8 hours ago

Dunno what money is supposed to do.

Use Debian to remove all the publicly aknowledged backdoors in OSX and Windows.

Don't answer unknown numbers on the phone.

Don't use Goggle search (phishing sites in search results).

That is like 99.99% right there.

Preferably the telephone provider could have some sort of 'firewall' you could enable such that your phone can't be called by a number you haven't called first or whitelisted in some other way.

financetechbro 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What to use instead of Google?

rightbyte 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well I thought of this as 'suitable for my parents' advice, so I guess the answer is, don't use search. Way too many scam and semi-scam sites. Go with word of mouth instead.

Oh and obviously people need ad blockers. Many scam baits in those.

BizarroLand 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Startpage is haflway decent. Ecosia as well.

Set one or the other as the default search engine in Firefox, throw on ublock origin and privacy badger, tell your older parents that this is the latest and greatest and that everyone is using it these days.

more_corn an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I switched to DuckDuckGo mostly because google likes to ignore some of my search terms which I find infuriating.