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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
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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.

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[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

These are marked with a green/purple skull next to the file in search results.

do you think gen-z is able to somehow hover over the icons to see the tooltip and understand what these skulls are for when they're using their phone for everything?

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Who is torrenting stuff on their PHONE?!

(Unless using it to control their PC remotely)