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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers. (www.vox.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] yoshisaur@lemm.ee 29 points 9 months ago (4 children)

wish i could say i’m surprised. i’m gen z myself and i’d say i’m pretty decent with not being an idiot with technology. i do the usual stuff like running firefox + uBlockOrigin and i’m also a linux user. anyways, people at my school are just… so dumb with technology. a bunch of people have lost permission to use their school chromebooks and a computer at school because they got malware on it. either by going to a pirate site or just clicking a random download button (my school doesn’t allow us to use adblockers). not to mention that most of them believe that macs cannot get malware. so yeah, i’m unfortunately not surprised with this

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thank getting into pcgaming for pushing me towards tech literacy. With how simplified tech has gotten and most usage being phones it's not surprising so many are more clueless than boomers who were at least forced to use PCs in an office setting.

[–] yoshisaur@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

that’s similar to what happened to me. i wanted to make a ROM hack for super mario world. fast forward 3 years later and im now using a jailbroken iphone and dual booting win10 and fedora

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

(my school doesn’t allow us to use adblockers)

wtf why

[–] jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because you can potentially install other extensions, chrome and edge will suck with uBO soon anyway, and you cant install exe's or chocolatey, too restricted.

[–] yoshisaur@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

yeah that’s probably it

[–] yoshisaur@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

i really wish i knew

[–] jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

Same here, people look at me like an alien when I say that I use an android (no root anything) or a jailbroken iPhone. I've met people that don't even understand the concept of a folder...

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Getting malware on a chromebook is hard. How did they manage that. I thought it was even more locked down than ios?

[–] yoshisaur@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

i’m honestly not sure. i should probably ask the school IT guy because he had to ban a few people from using chromebooks. we are allowed to download things so that’s probably it though.