So, I had to “fix” my fathers browser again this morning. I swear sometimes letting the elderly loose on the internet feels like letting them rawdog a crackhead sex party under an overpass full of used syringes. They’re guaranteed to catch something.
Anyway, he had half a dozen of scam extensions installed that all added “Yahoo by <scam>” (also, he uninstalled uBO ffs).
Why?
Has yahoo become so desperate and/or scammy that they rely on malicious extensions to drive traffic to their shitty search engine? Are they so insecure that any scammer can hijack them to inject their own ads?
How the fuck can my father catch such extensions despite me locking down pretty much everything (he’s on Bluefin) and not even knowing what an extension is?
It’s possible their intention is to represent themselves as the search engine, and the demographic they target lines up well with people that use Yahoo for search?
I wouldn’t be surprised to see some represent themselves as AOL either, for example.
Anything anyone old enough to not know what they’re doing will look at and think, “That’s the internet.”