• theherk@lemmy.world
    6·
    24 days ago

    Browser doesn’t really matter much. If one isn’t using dev tools or many addons, just pick something FOSS and call it good. I love Kagi for search but candidly for non-tech people, just DDG is simple and pretty good with both results and privacy.

  • Katzelle3@lemmy.world
    3·
    24 days ago

    Doesn’t really matter. The true work lies in how you configure it. You can make the computer automatically open the browser and multiple tabs on startup. Move the tabs to the sidebar, so they have all the websites they want neatly organized in a list on the left side of the screen.

    DuckDuckGo has a feature called bangs that redirects your searches to other search engines depending of which bang you use.

  • ArcticPad@lemmy.world
    3·
    23 days ago

    This might be less popular but DuckDuckGo, depending on age and tech literacy. My 71 y/o aunt keeps downloading things and getting scammed from ads so I figured it would be the safest to set her up on because it’s the least customizable and poses the least risk.

  • Alexhudosnik@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    23 days ago

    Personally, I installed the Brave browser for my parents, and the reason for this is that Google Chrome blocked ads very slowly, while Brave blocked everything very quickly. The Startpage search engine seems to be fine, except that important tabs are closed, of which there were 50 open, but that’s a technical issue.😆

  • vrek@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    24 days ago

    How old is old? Recommendations for 85+ is different then if your in hs and asking about your 40 year old father…

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
      1·
      22 days ago

      You would have to change a few settings, making the resolution default to full screen and I’m torn on weather to leave “delete cookies on close”. It’ll force them to remember their passwords or they’ll have a million post-its, which would be fine until cousin Eddy needs a drug refill or Aunt Karen decides to take over the credit card account.

      Getting someone to use a password manager is not so easy, and I really don’t trust any of the cloud solutions to not screw it up - even a simple UI update bacomes a problem.

      There’s also some old asshole who will say something like “You get that liberal furry shit off my computer”

  • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
    1·
    24 days ago

    Search engine, Kagi for parents. You can customize it to just kid friendly results for them so they never see all of the easily manipulative links out there on nearly every other search engine. Similar to the OG Google experience of the early 2000s, but way more relevant and way more helpful as a service to find anything/everything of child curiosity that’s child appropriate.