I’m helping my older neighbor deal with tons of spam email that she’s getting. For dealing with spam I thought about using thunderbird with with some extensions and making comprehensive filters. To reduce the volume in the future I thought about using deleteme and simplelogin so that her information doesn’t continue to be spread.
Anyone have thoughts on the approach or maybe improvements that could be better?
Like @merde@sh.itjust.works said, several accounts for a tech illiterate person is counter productive. Unsubscribe what you can unsubscribe and then filter rules on thunderbird like you proposed. That’s how I do it with my elderly parents.
Agreed, this is the only way. Multiple accounts for an elderly person is not going to work.
Thunderbird, and unsubscribe to everything that enters. That’ll cut your spam in half at least
I think something like simplelogin is too complicated for a basic user.
I suggest setting her up with two or three different new email addresses. One for important things like gov accounts, utilities accounts, and personal emails to friends, and the other for her to use to sign up to stupid data-harvesting crap like newsletters, stores, etc.
It would probably be helpful to do a little behavioural training too around not signing up for things that require your contact details like email or phone.
Noted
noo0OO! Don’t setup 3 different addresses for an old person who already can’t deal with one
