How to protect elderly relatives' phones from paid subscriptions?

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You can accidentally subscribe to a paid subscription for jokes, news, a horoscope or anything else instantly. It seems that the subscription happened automatically, and the operator began to write off money unnoticed and without asking for consent. It is difficult to fight this. It is especially difficult for the older generation: not everyone and not always easy to understand modern technology and the terms of the advertising offer written in small print (sometimes very veiled).

For example, you can subscribe to a paid service by zalo database clicking the "Yes" button in response to the question "Do you want to get an accurate weather forecast?" Operators are required to warn that the subscription to the service is paid, but most often the warning is unnoticeable, and in the most inconspicuous corner of the page.

Let's figure out how to track paid subscriptions and prevent them.

Constant control

All paid subscriptions can be tracked and disabled in the personal account of the mobile operator. If you check for paid subscriptions regularly, at least once a month, you can track them and cancel them in time.

This is the easiest way to protect your phone from paid services, but it is also the most energy-consuming. You will have to check your personal account constantly and manually. You will need to disable each one, even if it is not actually used (for example, it is related to the use of mobile Internet, and it is disabled), because otherwise money will be written off for them.