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Honestly all advertising targeted to children should be banned. It's just not fair. Children don't stand a chance against marketing crafted by adults. You're pi
by nkrisc 7y ago
Honestly all advertising targeted to children should be banned. It's just not fair. Children don't stand a chance against marketing crafted by adults. You're pitting the mind of a child against that of a trained, professional, adult marketer. The kid is their clay to be molded.
- gameswithgo 7y agoadults don't stand a chance either.
- majewsky 7y ago> Children don't stand a chance against marketing crafted by adults. Nobody can stand a chance against someone well-versed in applied psychology (i.e. a marketer).
- TeMPOraL 7y agoEspecially that it's really you vs. a whole industry of well-paid professionals weaponizing psychological research.
- repolfx 7y agoThe fact that so much advertising barely works is the basis of Google's entire business model. The idea that adverts are all made by masters of psychological manipulation is laughable - most of it is considered successful of it just manages to get the name noticed and remembered at all.
- AJ007 7y agoThis seems to be getting missed, but those kids apps are serving ads for adults. Google has gone way out of their way to make it confusing to block mobile ads (you used to have to add a blacklist domain.) Last year they removed support for that and required advertisers to check an option within the ad campaign. Earlier this year they removed that option. This is a win for advertisers, a loss for publishers and ad networks making money from mis-targeted ads.
- kalleboo 7y ago> Honestly all advertising targeted to children should be banned When it comes to TV, some countries like Sweden and Norway do this. It seems the legislation hasn't caught up to the Internet though, and it may be difficult when the content comes from abroad.