My parents are what I consider normal parents. They tell bad jokes and try to understand my generation, with variable results. They are digitally literate, yet “blind” to how deeply Big Tech has embedded itself in their home. This is how I helped them move to Vivaldi. They grew up with the big technological development of the world, from the Apollo moon landing, all the way to today’s phones being more powerful than the Apollo spaceships ever were. They have an average tech understanding of a Norwegian person over 60. My father is having fun with his home audio system and home automations. But he uses the user friendly systems, and not the more technical systems. This unfortunately means that Big Tech is big in their household. Some of it might be my own fault, after years as the on-call IT support for them. Recently, whilst sitting at our cabin in the mountains, I took the first steps to making them a bit less dependent on Google. I helped them switch over to Vivaldi.It only takes a few minutes to switch to Vivaldi, and it’s really simple. If you want to be a bit more advanced, you can make it harder to use the old browser. Let’s go through the steps together.1. PermissionBefore you do anything, ask for permission. If you just go ahead and do it, you’ll cause trouble, and end up with loads of calls of “where has my internet gone?”. The best way to do it, is to ask if you can guide them to a new browser. Explain that using Vivaldi means not being tracked, and keeping your data safe.2. Install Vivaldi Install Vivaldi on the device. I asked, my father gave me his phone and laptop. For mobile, I went to the Play Store and downloaded (but if they have an Apple device, you can do the same from the App Store). On his laptop, I went to Vivaldi.com and downloaded. And in just a couple of moments, we had installed Vivaldi.3. Do the setupAfter installing, I went through the setup screens and set Vivaldi as the default browser. Then, I deleted Chrome from the home screen, and added Vivaldi where Chrome used to be. You can of course also uninstall or deactivate it, so that Vivaldi is the only browser. After all that, I showed my father the app, and then I was done.If you want to make it even easier for them, you could consider removing all features and buttons that might not be used by your not so tech savvy parents. This could be features like mail and calendar on the desktop browser. But keep features that can be useful, like tab tiling and our built-in translator.It took less than 10 minutes from gaining permission until I was finished installing. And I have not gotten any complaints or even a single message after the switch. It is that easy.If you’ve done so already, how did you get your parents to switch? Give us your tips in the comments.