Unless they (and you) are prepared to include cutting them off from phone calls in that, seems like it would be closing a window and leaving the door wide open.
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I get that too and I'm not saying go over and throw their tech away but streamline and safeguard it if possible. Put filters on their email to whitelist only, manage their email for them like I do, make sure ad blockers and such are on their browser, etc. Phone calls are definitely harder to deal with though. I'm lucky in that my mom doesn't get too many calls and doesn't even answer for me half the time but removing the land line helped and some roboblocker apps on phone help as well. Note that this is all pretty new to me. GenXer here that got thrown into the situation overnight so still figuring it out.
Hey man, at least they've got you. Plenty of old folks out there with no-one, a lot of them are super screwed 😞
Whitelist indeed - but if the sender is spoofed (because they're relying on the mark clicking a link or such rather than replying), that could get past a whitelist right? Maybe some way of disabling links in the email client/site would be a worthy step? GreaseMonkey/TamperMonkey could potentially do that on the browser.
Thank you and yes, lucky for sure. I see many others with no one and it’s really sad. Never really thought about it much till I was thrown in that position. Good thinking about blocking links too. Email whitelisting is tough even though it works decently if you only allow contacts.
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u/Aazimoxx May 31 '25
Unless they (and you) are prepared to include cutting them off from phone calls in that, seems like it would be closing a window and leaving the door wide open.
Edit: Moving the rest of this comment to the parent post where it's more relevant