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Re:6-year-old made $11M in one year reviewing toys on YouTube by eropple on Monday December 11, 2017 @05:38PM (#15901314)
It probably isn't, but isn't that awful, too? One thing I have noticed over the last ten years is how much quieter it is in my home than my parents' house when I was growing up. Not people, but advertising. I actively notice (and reject) advertisements when I'm exposed to them today because I've largely built my habits around things that are not trying to sell things to me.

Bathing children in constant upsells and advertising seems like a really bad idea to me.

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Re:6-year-old made $11M in one year reviewing toys on YouTube by avenius on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:31AM (#15904427)
Here in Norway, advertising towards children is actually banned (at least for TV). Some channels get around this by broadcasting from other countries (ironically the ones that show the most cartoons), but at least there was a conscious effort made at one point.
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Re:6-year-old made $11M in one year reviewing toys on YouTube by iak8god on Monday December 11, 2017 @06:03PM (#15901545)
> It probably isn't, but isn't that awful, too?

Sure, but it's something we've been doing for decades. And I can't really blame parents for keeping kids occupied the easy way for a few hours at a time.

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Re:6-year-old made $11M in one year reviewing toys on YouTube by eropple on Monday December 11, 2017 @06:04PM (#15901552)
Being something we've been doing for decades is no reason to continue, though.

I'm not blaming parents. This is a collective problem. We killed Joe Camel; we can kill other ads designed to mess with kids' brains, too.

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