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I get the reasoning, but this is pretty sad. My older parents are frequently more and more fooled by sponsored Facebook posts with some fake product they want to buy, then all of a sudden they have "YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN HACKED" notification spam that takes up half their screen. It's not to a ridiculous degree, maybe 3 times a year on average, but it's happening more often recently.
I use uBlock Origin to keep them safe. If this starts not blocking any ads, I'm not sure what else to do. Is Brave going to keep up?
"Get them off Facebook" isn't an option. They're old, and it's how they connect with their friends and get fulfilment. As disgusting as Facebook is, it's too far gone at this point, I can't take that away from them.
The most annoying thing is... People can use more than one app. You can say "well, if you wanna talk to me, I'll be on this messenger here." And thats how you get them through the door.
It's really shouldn't be that hard, yet it feels like asking someone to pull their teeth out.
I swear this happens to me every single year, and I honestly don't know if Facebook is intercepting my messages because I don't know where the confusion comes from (aside my old brain not remembering the name of Facebook products):
"I'll send you a text message with the address"
"I don't see anything in messenger"
"What? what's messenger? I'm sending you a text message on the phone. Look at your phone"
"I'm looking at the phone I still don't see anything in messenger"
"What's messenger??????"
"I use it for all my messages"
"...and this is from Samsung?"
"No it's Facebook"