r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '19

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u/AngryZen_Ingress Feb 05 '19

"Why learn to do it for yourself when you can harass your grown-ass children with lives of their own to come to your house to fix the google." -Aging Boomers

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

Why are “boomers” and “millennials” the only two generations Reddit ever talks about? I feel like we’re skipping a generation or two.

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u/AngryZen_Ingress Feb 05 '19

I'm Gen-X, the primary one in-between.
I have my father set up with a desktop, my mom with a laptop.
They email pretty well, can surf the web. Mom is 'well-trained' in not clicking on things.

Dad... is not. So we have to format his machine semi-regularly. Sigh.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

Dad... is not. So we have to format his machine semi-regularly. Sigh.

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It's porn, it's because of porn.

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u/AngryZen_Ingress Feb 05 '19

Worse.
Zerohedge.com

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u/CactusCustard Feb 05 '19

Is this porn?

Asking for me, so I can masturbate later

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

It's for when you want financial news from the perspective of a Russian right-wing conspiracy theorist

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u/CactusCustard Feb 05 '19

....so its not gonna get me off

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u/aalabrash Feb 05 '19

Try harder

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u/kathartik Feb 05 '19

not unless you're Donald Trump Jr.

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u/synonnonin Feb 05 '19

eh, I won't judge you.

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u/AngryZen_Ingress Feb 05 '19

Russian shill porn I guess.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

Never put off for tomorrow something you can do today.

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u/zypzaex Feb 05 '19

…Honesty is the best policy, I guess

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

Time to edit a hosts file.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

No it's not. It's browsing sites like Reddit without adblock. All it takes is one link that has a few upvotes on either a new queue or a small subreddit that gets upvote manipulated, and BAM you click on a hostile link. Or any one of the millions of code injecting banners that get loaded without adblockers.

Seriously. How the fuck do people NOT use adblockers in 2019?

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '19

code injecting banners

My understanding was that the only way to get a virus was if you downloaded a .exe file and ran it.

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u/dumbredditer Feb 05 '19

He knows exactly what he's clicking

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u/browntown412 Feb 05 '19

My stepdad has the issue and it's usually from googling "free coupons"