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Your kid’s apps are crammed with ads

5 comments

  1. minimaltyp0s
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    The best thing I ever did at home and at my parents' house was to set up Pi-Holes. Since these are where my children primarily use their iPads they seen markedly fewer adverts. I sometimes forget...

    The best thing I ever did at home and at my parents' house was to set up Pi-Holes. Since these are where my children primarily use their iPads they seen markedly fewer adverts.

    I sometimes forget just how filthy the vanilla internet is when I'm browsing something over 4G instead of on my WiFi. Around 25% of my traffic is blocked most of the time. I'd use the internet much less if Pi-Hole stopped working.

    12 votes
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    demifiend
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    This doesn't surprise me. Kids don't have enough life experience to know they're being conned, so they're perfect victims for advertisers.

    This doesn't surprise me. Kids don't have enough life experience to know they're being conned, so they're perfect victims for advertisers.

    10 votes
    1. [2]
      alyaza
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      it really does feel like there should be some sort of law against this if there isn't already.

      it really does feel like there should be some sort of law against this if there isn't already.

      7 votes
      1. Pilgrim
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        There are such laws in some places. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_to_children#Regulations_for_food_Advertising_to_Children EDIT: There were actually a lot of things in place to...

        There are such laws in some places.

        The legal restrictions placed on advertising to children vary dramatically, based on the country in which you live. The most extreme regulations exist in Norway, Sweden and Quebec, which of whom have legal restrictions in place that have removed the right to advertise to all children. Whereas on the opposite end of the scale in the US, the marketing/advertising industry is fairly relaxed and the legal restrictions that surround advertising to children are self-regulated by advertising companies, resulting in few or zero regulations around what they can show and sell children

        source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_to_children#Regulations_for_food_Advertising_to_Children

        EDIT: There were actually a lot of things in place to stop this in the US. I wrote a paper about it college. You can read it here: https://tildes.net/~humanities/81i/who_has_the_power_he_man_and_the_masters_of_marketing

        9 votes