Why We Exists
Most online safety advice is written for the wrong audience.
It's either written for IT professionals — full of technical terminology and acronyms that assume a level of background knowledge most families don't have — or it's written in such general terms that it doesn't actually help anyone decide what to do.
Meanwhile, the people who need good guidance most are adult children trying to set up protection for an elderly parent. They're researching identity monitoring services, data removal tools, VPNs, and password managers — not for themselves, but to figure out what their 72-year-old parent actually needs, can understand, and will use.
There was no good resource for that audience. OnlineSafetyGuide.com exists to be that resource.
"Most families think they're doing enough to stay safe online. A strong password here, a bit of caution there. But the threats that cost families the most money aren't the obvious ones — they're the quiet ones that build for months before anyone notices."
— from the OnlineSafetyGuide.com Family Safety Audit introduction
Our Mission
To give every family the information they need to protect themselves and their elderly parents online, in plain English, with honest product recommendations backed by real data.
Plain English
Every guide on this site is written to be understood without a technical background. We explain jargon when we have to use it. We avoid it when we don't.
Honest Recommendations
We only recommend products we'd set up for a family member ourselves. We use third-party data — not marketing materials — to make our assessments. Where a product has weaknesses, we say so.
Family-Caregiver Focus
Our primary audience is the adult child managing digital safety for an ageing parent. Every guide is written with that context in mind — including how to have the conversation with your parent, how to set things up remotely, and what to look for when something goes wrong.