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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by rchaud on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:57PM (#18311008)
Advertising to kids happens through Youtube and Instagram, not those ugly Adsense iframes that can be spotted a mile away and at this point fall under "banner blindness" for a lot of users.

I'm not a gamer so I don't know much about Zelda, but the sort of hypnotic hold some Youtube/Insta personalities have on kids is astonishing. They will parrot their talking points, talk about them relentlessly with friends and buy whatever they're shilling, be it makeup, game guides, phone skins, what have you.

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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by tspike on Friday October 26, 2018 @01:35PM (#18311309)
Yep.. YouTube is off limits. He's still little so social media isn't in the picture yet, will burn that bridge when I come to it.
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by wool_gather on Saturday October 27, 2018 @09:30AM (#18315603)
This really isn't new to YouTube, though; kids have been responding this way to ads on regular television, and probably radio before that, for generations. I remember being "brainwashed" myself by the ads that played alongside my cartoons.
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by ip26 on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:19PM (#18314181)
Zelda is the video game equivalent of a high fantasy novel.
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by 2snakes on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:11PM (#18313061)
Just tell him to use Chrome/Firefox and Adblock Plus.
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by Pharmakon on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:16PM (#18313084)
Better to use uBlock Origin, which won’t let through “acceptable” ads. If you really want to protect the kid, and are willing to set it up or teach them, uMatrix is good too.
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by matheusmoreira on Saturday October 27, 2018 @02:22AM (#18314591)
It won't help if the ad is part of the actual video itself, though. Only video editing can undo that damage.
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by forgotmysn on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:45PM (#18313510)
Just use both
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by hawski on Saturday October 27, 2018 @04:35PM (#18317537)
What does AdBlock+ give what UBlock does not? AFAIK they both use the same block lists - easylist and friends. Is there anything to gain when one runs both?
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