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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by TheNewAndy on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:37PM (#30446835)
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.

Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by cute_boi on Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:19AM (#30453838)
Same, 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/

Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by d0gbread on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:34PM (#30449579)
Having 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.
Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by lostmsu on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:03PM (#30447177)
Yeah, Alexa in South Park: Post COVID is quite a dystopian demonstration of that.