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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by jolux on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:12PM (#19912177)
How are those ads worse? This feels completely arbitrary.
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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by saghm on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:17PM (#19912227)
I think GP is saying that what they asked for as a kid was much more affordable
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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by jolux on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:38AM (#19917444)
Sure? It’s still consumer capitalism?
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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by pastor_elm on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:09PM (#19912820)
they are explicit ads for fun things, not some ambiguous influencer ad that makes your kid feel bad about themselves.
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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by jolux on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:40AM (#19917461)
…sure, the ads make them seem fun. Maybe kids these days want special clothes instead of McDonald’s and Sunny D? (those things are good for what they are but not great in any objective sense. Neither are clothes, but that’s kind of my point.) Also from experience of my younger sibling and my cousins, those ads (and things) are mostly seen and desired by teenagers, which is morally questionable in different ways.
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