• morto@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    I recently saw a kid playing on a tablet, and it was an ad for like every 2 minutes of playing. And they weren’t simple ads, but gamified ones that filled the screen and required user interaction to skip. The kid grumbled every time when they appeared, and quickly did the tasks to be back into the game. It was a really sad thing to see. I tried to talk to his parents about the possibility of blocking the ads, but they simply ignored me.

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        18 hours ago

        Yeah, not near, it just is.

        Brainrot is a real thing, the studies have been done now.

        Might as well have just drank for the whole pregnancy.

        Thats comparable to the level of fucked up this will make your kid, just handing them a tablet to be their ‘parent’.