[smeej]

> What the hell is the "wrong" way to use a computer?

Searching for your bank's website rather than bookmarking it, and entering your credentials into the phishing site that's the top result.

Installing Anydesk or something for the "nice gentleman who called me from Microsoft to tell me my warranty had expired and he needed gift cards to pay for it."

Those are the two most obvious ones I can think of. There's a multi-billion dollar "industry" separating especially older people from their money using computers.

Frankly if you've even been around computers for 50+ years and haven't encountered the many and varied ridiculous ways people can use them "wrong," I have to wonder whether you've ever had to deal with regular people using them in the real world at all.

[matthewmacleod]

Searching for your bank's website rather than bookmarking it, and entering your credentials into the phishing site that's the top result.

This isn’t wrong so much as a damning indictment of the tech industry’s inability to fix core issues despite having more money that god herself

[frde_me]

Eh, I'm a pretty advanced user by any mean, and I still search for my banks website a non-trivial amount of time. I have a bookmark, but it's honestly just as fast to do it that way

[stubish]

Is not wrong because it is slower. It is wrong because it is a security problem. A typo in your search or a phisher who managed to SEO their results above the genuine one, and you end up on a malicious site identical except for a hard to spot detail in the URL. You enter your username and password, and probably even helpfully do the 2FA dance for them to let them drain your account.

[smeej]

If you set a bookmark, typing the bank's name into the browser bar should pull the bookmark up first.