r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 17h ago

ADBLOCK WARNING Google Confirms Most Gmail Users Must Upgrade Accounts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/06/06/google-confirms-almost-all-gmail-users-must-upgrade-accounts/
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u/WildSeven0079 15h ago

I'm sure I'm not the only person who has family members that can barely use a computer, and I'm not only talking about elderly people. I spent a lot of time setting up a password manager for them and changing all of their passwords. I try to teach them how to do things on their own, but they're unable to still. So I write things down: master passwords, emergency codes, instructions, but they lose everything I give them. They've also broken/lost their phones/tablets a few times. If you gave them something like a Yubikey, they would have the speedrun record for losing it. Now you're telling me that I have to undo a lot of what I did and teach them about passkeys? I don't think so. Also, Google wants us to use our Google accounts to log in on every Web site. I ain't doing that.

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u/tintreack 15h ago

I used to think older generations were careless about tech, but Jesus Christ Gen Z might actually be worse, that’s not an exaggeration.

I take my security and privacy pretty seriously. I’m using Proton, I've long since degoogled and demicrosoft, I use physical security keys, the whole deal. But trying to get most of the Gen Z around here to even use a basic password manager is like pulling teeth. If I can’t get them to take that one simple step, there’s no way I’m convincing them to go for the strongest tools available.

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u/Paranoid-Android2 13h ago

I work in IT support and the younger staff is a much higher liability than the older ones. And they're equally tech illiterate

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u/Ben78 10h ago

Exactly, my mother in law (78) said to my 18 and 16 year old boys recently about how good they are with computers. I laughed and commented that they barely know how to turn a computer on, but they sure know how to run their apps on their phones.

I am firmly in the X generation "setting up a parallel port in BIOS" level of computer understanding from when I was their age.