Thoughts on Guard.io as a service for lesser tech savvy family members? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 7 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi there, So just watched latest video of Jim Browning and in the video he had a sponsor I had not heard about before, Guard.io. So I went to check it out, and it seems like a fairly decent service (by that I mean, a service I would put on family members devices) for helping against possible phishing attempt and general safeguarding online activity etc.. I currently have installed Ublock Origin in their browsers and pointed their DNS to base.dns.mullvad.net, but that's about it.

So:

Anyone had any experience with this service?
What's the general consensus around this service?
Is it necessary, compared to the measures I mentioned above?
Are there any other general measure I could implement on their devices? (they are on both apple and Android ecosystems)

Thanks for any suggestions 🌻

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[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I wouldn't use it.

Seems to me like free plan is what browsers natively support anyway. (Scam site blacklist. I highly suspect they use the same. They can't compete with the one Google hosts and all major browsers integrate.)

And instead of paying 15 usd per month, Windows defender is a well funded, well established, well trusted solution.

There's no practical gain in blockage before download. Windows defender scans upon and after download, before execution.

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

Fair enough, thanks 😊

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