In complete seriousness, they need to make laws about ads that say they can take no more than one, maybe two, clicks/taps to close/skip. No more “wait 10 seconds until you can skip the video, wait 10 seconds until you can skip the fake playable ad, wait 5 seconds until you can close the ‘download now’ overlay, puts up a half-screen in-app appstore pop-up (which at least you can close immediately).” This should literally be illegal to do.
Edit: this is blowing up so I just wanted to add (haha ad) that this was my “reasonable request” I also think there should be way more and way stricter laws around all advertising in general. I think most advertising as we know it today should be abolished.
For those who didnt realize it wasn’t just a blanket statement, but actually made sense
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User @yehudah sharing a screenshot of a Tumblr post (tweet?) from rainbow-femme reading “My thoughts on the whole “make the internet child friendly” thing is that no one under the age of 18 should feel comfortable on the internet”
@yehudah adds “totally normal and not deranged thing to say”
User @arcanescavenger reblogged, sharing an uncredited image of another post (tweet?). That image reads:
“I don’t want kids to feel safe on the internet because they aren’t, and people looking to take advantage of kids want them to feel comfortable. They want minors using their legal name, posting videos of their school, showing their face as they wear school sweatshirts. I’ve seen so many recent stalking cases that happened because the person used the Snapchat map feature that allowed people to see where they went and for how long every day
I think that it’s good to accept that kids exist on the internet and getting rid of some of the more horrific Wild West aspects is good (Chatroulette type situations, easy to stumble on beheading videos) but the amount that social media sites are telling people they’re safe for minors and said minors can let their guard down makes me very nervous. It is not difficult to film your 13 year old nephew for a TikTok, post it like it’s your own, then ask the other 13 year olds who like it where they go to school”
@arcanescavenger adds “For those who didn’t realize it wasn’t just a blanket statement, but actually made sense”
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