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adblocks make this world a better place
Or at least make the internet tolerable.
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.
The G.I. Joe cartoon was straight up propaganda. There was an Alvin and the Chipmunks ep about the Berlin Wall, too. 80s sucked.
Rush 'n Attack. Get it? I was maybe 6 years old when I was dropping quarters into that bad boy.
So figtiing to free half a country from commies sucks huh? Wow.....
Pushing political propaganda at children sucks. Wtf makes that ok to you?
Quote where I said that was ok.
The biggest punchline of all of this is that our tax dollars are paying for this propaganda. Not in my name.
The only thing I can think of is “maybe the puzzle game wasn’t marketed to kids” but I do imagine that they say it’s “for all ages” or something to that effect.
Yeah, I’m no fan of ads (have everything blocked at the DNS level) but there should still be a “responsible” way of doing this — and by responsible I mean simply allowing the app developer to scope down ads that are shown.
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.
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.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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