Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

Re:Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mo... by afro88 on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:20AM (#14635855)

You should definitely report the game to Apple. Games have ratings, and a guy holding a girl in a headlock with a gun pointed to her head is depiction of violence and likely not 4+ age friendly.

Apple are the only people that can force the game to change it's ad inventory.

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Re:Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mo... by DanBC on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:36AM (#14635923)

I've done that before, and no-one cares.

The app had an age rating of 4+, it kept showing alcohol ads.

I told Apple, who did nothing, I told the app maker who did nothing, and I reported it to the UK regulator who told me the ad network was using demographics, not app age ratings, to deliver ads. Since the phone owner had a credit card the ad network "knew" the person using the phone was over 18.

I pointed out as politely as I could how fucking stupid that was, and the regulator is now "working with" the industry to try to fix this.

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