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[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Every time my grandma needs help with her phone I always have to go and delete like 10 apps because she just keeps installing random useless ad ridden crap. She has like 6 diferent weather apps. She keeps installing random fucking gps navigation map apps. You open them and boom immediately ads. They just don't learn.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why does she download so many duplicate functionality apps? Has she told you why?

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

I've noticed the tech illiterate develope tunnel vision and only see the tiniest portion of the screen at a time. They also are incredibly suseptible to the dark patterns that phones are riddled with so when the phone helpfully tries to offer a random app that paid to be promoted with a certain search term they don't realize they've been had and blindly install it

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Because they have different data providers. Not like you can just use one app with several different data sources.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Is this sarcasm or not? I can't tell.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That is what she said.

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

use parental controls and disable app installing

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