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Go to a senior living facility and check out the permissions on each user's Chrome install. Web API abuse is rampant, the notifications API will be full of spammers. Ten malicious Chrome extensions are installed that are for "maps and directions" but hijack your home page and search default.

Chrome team has done a terrible job at understanding how less technical users interact with their browser and how to keep them secure.

My senior citizen support checklist is editing their Chrome shortcut to always launch without extensions, and block all new requests for notifications, location, camera, microphone, etc. (Switching browsers is better, but generally seniors prefer their computers don't change much, so I'll usually carry forward the browser they already have.)




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