My sister is a really weird case. She doesn't buy into some dumb idea of "ads are good or anything", and she finds them annoying, but when I tell her she should install an adblocker she will just... not for some reason. Like it takes literal seconds to find ublock origin and hit install. I've even offered to do it for her but nope. I just don't understand it. Kinda tempted to just install one for her some time when she steps away for a few seconds, doubt she'd even notice.
i think broadly there is a fear of computers. like, we have been trained to feel anxiety that something will go wrong if we interact with computers in any way that is not officially sanctioned by power. this is the main psychological barrier that stands in the way of liberated computing, not any objective qualities of FOSS' user-friendliness vs that of proprietary software or how computer nerds treat non-computer nerds.
100% this because I have experienced this myself. Always felt strange as a kid if I had to use Libre Office because MS Office always seemed more "official" and I had a huge fear that Libre Office would somehow mess up all my homework.
A lot of people seem to have given up on learning the most basic technological functions that aren’t scrolling on a phone. Not even trying to be condescending or snarky. I’ve met so many people who just say “I’m not good with technology” or “that’s too difficult” when I explain the concept of an adblocker in the most basic terms or when I explain to them what an add on is and how to install it.
They just assume technology = hard and automatically reject all information about it. Some of these people are much smarter than me as well, like in the medical field.
I get this a lot too and as the resident "IT guy" for a lot of friends and family you'd think they'd take my advice but it's like they develop some kind of pathological demand avoidance when I start suggesting ways to unenshittify their experience. Like its one thing if I was trying to cajole them into installing arch linux or whatever but come on dude how have you never googled "how to get rid of ads free" in the last twenty years?
My sister is a really weird case. She doesn't buy into some dumb idea of "ads are good or anything", and she finds them annoying, but when I tell her she should install an adblocker she will just... not for some reason. Like it takes literal seconds to find ublock origin and hit install. I've even offered to do it for her but nope. I just don't understand it. Kinda tempted to just install one for her some time when she steps away for a few seconds, doubt she'd even notice.
i think broadly there is a fear of computers. like, we have been trained to feel anxiety that something will go wrong if we interact with computers in any way that is not officially sanctioned by power. this is the main psychological barrier that stands in the way of liberated computing, not any objective qualities of FOSS' user-friendliness vs that of proprietary software or how computer nerds treat non-computer nerds.
100% this because I have experienced this myself. Always felt strange as a kid if I had to use Libre Office because MS Office always seemed more "official" and I had a huge fear that Libre Office would somehow mess up all my homework.
A lot of people seem to have given up on learning the most basic technological functions that aren’t scrolling on a phone. Not even trying to be condescending or snarky. I’ve met so many people who just say “I’m not good with technology” or “that’s too difficult” when I explain the concept of an adblocker in the most basic terms or when I explain to them what an add on is and how to install it.
They just assume technology = hard and automatically reject all information about it. Some of these people are much smarter than me as well, like in the medical field.
I get this a lot too and as the resident "IT guy" for a lot of friends and family you'd think they'd take my advice but it's like they develop some kind of pathological demand avoidance when I start suggesting ways to unenshittify their experience. Like its one thing if I was trying to cajole them into installing arch linux or whatever but come on dude how have you never googled "how to get rid of ads free" in the last twenty years?
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Ive done this on people's browsers
Is this praxis?
It's kindness.
My sister does everything from a browser and wasn't interested in an ad blocker when I mentioned her trying NewPipe.