Happened to me once. I did not know who he was in told him so. It’s possible the guy was bluffing. He claimed to be some state senator.

  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
    35·
    5 days ago

    I had a “I can’t believe you’re who you are.”
    When a very wealthy businessman who’s well-known in the city as a traditionally married, conservative senior and founder of a charity gave me his laptop to “update and fix any issues”. He had a Chrome shortcut on the desktop, but I noticed it also had Firefox installed.
    I routinely check all installed browsers for any issues like add-ons that may have been installed unintentionally or malicious websites with the permission to show desktop notifications.

    When I opened up Firefox, links with images to gay bondage, leather and shit-eating fetish sites showed up directly on the start page. And this guy was watching me while I was working on it. The tension in the room was palpable.
    I quickly opened the settings, did my checks and closed the browser without skipping a beat.
    “OK, found nothing malicious installed, now let’s check your update status.”
    And pivoted to some small talk about his charity.

    Got the biggest tip of my life that day.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      22·
      5 days ago

      Old conservative gentleman -> definitely is a freak on the internet. The hard data I know about is limited to which US states visit porn sites the most, but there’s a lot of anecdotal data.

      The repression has to come out somewhere, I guess.