I asked a relative to look for RealVNC on the Play Store and install it. Once they were done, I asked them to fulfill a basic task inside RealVNC and they were really confused by my instructions. I took a look at their phone, lo and behold, they had installed a different app. I asked them to repeat the install procedure while I watched. They punched in “realvnc” in the search box, two identically formatted results appeared. Their finger instinctively clicked the Install button on the top result. It was an ad. 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
No, they aren’t illiterate. They made it obvious that they understand that the first result is an ad and that the 2nd is the intended result. Just because they fundamentally disagree with your base position, doesn’t mean they disagree with your remaining points. Abusive tech design is still abusive, regardless if someone technically inclined enough to understand lemmy feels otherwise or not.