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https://www.reuters.com/world/graphic-pro-israel-ads-make-their-way-into-childrens-video-games-2023-10-30/

Politicizing children is just not acceptable, no matter which side you're on.

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[–] samokosik@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

adblocks make this world a better place

[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Or at least make the internet tolerable.

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've deployed ublock origin in my gpo. Edge and chrome for all users. I'm fed up of the absolute ad ridden malware messes Google and bing let through.

Microsoft sell advanced EDR but let people pay to comprise your pc.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The G.I. Joe cartoon was straight up propaganda. There was an Alvin and the Chipmunks ep about the Berlin Wall, too. 80s sucked.

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Rush 'n Attack. Get it? I was maybe 6 years old when I was dropping quarters into that bad boy.

[–] random65837@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So figtiing to free half a country from commies sucks huh? Wow.....

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pushing political propaganda at children sucks. Wtf makes that ok to you?

[–] random65837@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Quote where I said that was ok.

[–] rolandtb303@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

The biggest punchline of all of this is that our tax dollars are paying for this propaganda. Not in my name.

[–] random65837@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Politicizing children is just not acceptable, no matter which side you're on.

Agreed, but that wasn't the ads purpose, did you actually read up on it? It wasn't supposed to be shown to the under 18 crowd, and the wording of the ad itself was clearly for parents, not kids.

[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

and yet, it somehow made it into a kids game. The core issue here is the uncontrolled content display. Imagine some NSFW ads slip through into a kids app. Therefore, ads must be forbidden in apps intended for underaged.