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I used to have no adblockers on anything, and I was fine with it. Then I had kids, and I wasn't really comfortable with bringing them up in an environment where
by TheNewAndy 5y ago
I used to have no adblockers on anything, and I was fine with it. Then I had kids, and I wasn't really comfortable with bringing them up in an environment where when you tell a computer to do one thing ("Play this video") it does a different thing ("I will do that, but not before I do what I want to do"). There are a few websites that have ad supported videos that I am ok with my kids watching, and putting uBlock Origin on the computers means that when I tell my computer to play videos from those sites, I know that it is going to do just that, and I won't have my kids being manipulated by stuff they don't understand.
Ads in software are just a case of a computer not doing what you have asked it to do. It has always been ok to ignore ads - putting them on computers does not make them special in any way.
This is just my parenting, and I can imagine that other people want their children to value other things - and I might change things as they get older so they can understand how the ads work. Right now, they are not ready for that.
- cute_boi 5y agoSame, sometime I get naughty ads, I wonder what impression it would leave on children mind. I think someone has uploaded the few examples of such egregious vice. https://cosmicskeptic.github.io/blog/advertising-industry/ https://cosmicskeptic.github.io/blog/advertising-industry/
- lostmsu 5y agoYeah, Alexa in South Park: Post COVID is quite a dystopian demonstration of that.
- d0gbread 5y agoHaving a kid is what put it over the top for me too. That, compounded by Google's ads being all over the map in terms of content, location in videos, and most importantly, length. I've put on a kids video and mid video there's a ten minute ad playing and a two year old absorbing some content I did not approve.