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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Malware is any unwanted thing on your computer that either you or your system has to deal with, whether in the form of software, emails, or pop-ups.

    Besides, they won’t just give you spam in the form of emails. They’ll also give you advertising cookies.

    Also, the tracking beacons only load if you let it. I assume you have your email client set to not load remote content. (If you don’t, you really should.) not sure what you use for email, but thunderbird (mozilla) does it automatically.

    That’s besides the point. I use Proton Mail and a lot of Firefox privacy and adblock extensions to guard against this sort of thing, but I shouldn’t have to.

    Not everyone is as savvy and aware and at least once a week, I have to use the computer of my mom who is the type who just says yes to everything and trusts that they’d never do anything too bad even though she’s giving them carte blanche to do so.

    And yes, I’ve suggested that my mom switches away from gmail and Edge to Firefox and Proton or another better free email provider and offered to handle it and installing the extensions for her, but she won’t hear of it.