I’m specifically referring to things like the ads for cheap sunglasses that I’ve been seeing for what seems like over a decade now and the more recent “look who died in an accident” video links that three of my elderly aunts have had on their accounts in the last year. Who is “hacking” these accounts and what are they gaining from it?
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That’s not what hacking is. That’s just spam ads. Hacking is when someone actual gains access to the account. People say or think accounts are “hacked” all the time but that that doesn’t make it true. Most people are very computer illiterate. An account is only hacked if someone has actual control over the account because they’ve gotten the account username and password. Your elderly aunts don’t know what hacking is, which is not a dig and them and it’s not a surprise – it’s just true that elderly people have no idea how computers or the internet work. They think that anything happening that they didn’t want to happen is “hacking”, but being shown manipulative ads is *not* being hacked.
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