waterfox or firefox, new brave browser could be nice, but i haven’t used it much.
for grandma probs firefox sadly.
browser extensions:
ublock origins, httpseverywhere, duckduckgo plus and youtube enhancer.
as much as i wish one could do it, one can’t install noscript on a normie computer.
so definitely one addon, that blocks major trackers from facebook and google, as noscript is not an option for them, but a perfect one doesn’t come to mind.
and with duckduckgo plus and duckduckgo setup as primary search option, learn them a few “bashes”, which will make it easier for them to search on youtube (… !yt) or other sides directly from the browser search bar.
and i’d setup darkmode on youtube and duckduckgo for them probs and show them the option to disable or enable it.
Both chrome/chromium and Firefox would work well, still going to plug firefox over the others if only because I don’t use the first two so hard to recommend them going by what other people say. If you are talking about actual old people I would run it by them before adding an add blocker since some sites detect that and don’t like it and that just adds more confusion. Probably want to show them how to use and disable the add blocker for certain site’s then expect every other call for the next 6 years from them to be about how to use the add blocker.
why would u throw her into the spying and restrictive insanity, that is the google ecosystem?
and given the very few files granny would have, u could tell her to regularly make backups on anything, hell a usb stick for example.
i would care about my granny being free of spying and all trackers as good as possible and being as free as possible and oh dear chromeos certainly wouldn’t provide that.
Great recommendation. We gave our IPad 1 (First Gen OG IPad) to my Grandma. She’s playing some Majong, Browsing and plaing Solitaire. Her Hands are problematic as she can’t properly grab or press on things anymore. The touch interface works flawless for her though. And she doesn’t mind it’s old and slow, she is too Haven’t had a single support call in 2 years from her.
However, the support calls started when she took the free android phone from the phone company to look at the family whatsapp chat…
2 systems too much system
Obviously, I would have told her to get ‘more of the same’ instead of something different. But she said the iphone was expensive and this one was free… so fair enough I guess.
But, not sure how much it would have helped considering for as long as I can think I had to add/update/delete her phone numbers…
Haven’t had a single support call in 2 years from her.