Parents.of teenagers, the BeReal app is advertising cigarettes to your children. My 17 year old son, at breakfast this morning, showed me an ad for Newport cigarettes for $11.05 per pack. Please monitor your children’s online activities!
While this may be true, and monitoring your kids’ internet exposure is generally good, can we please not turn the fediverse into Facebook? I hate this kind of alarmist shit.
Something that may be important to know: BeReal had this controversy where they sold survey data to Facebook, am pretty sure it said no data is shared.
“Hey kid, want some happysticks?”
You don’t want to sell me happy sticks. You want to go home and rethink your life.
Is this that “capture what you’re doing” app?
I don’t believe people would use that for nefarious means. No way!
there’s ways to impliment adblock dns.
never heard about this app, but where do you have to live to get cigarette ads at all? I’m pretty sure we made that illegal in canada and I never saw any while travelling either.
Apparently still legal in the US
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statutes/federal-cigarette-labeling-advertising-act
The problem is enforcement rather than legality.
You let your kids watch ads?
Let them use freedom respecting software. Don’t give your kids crack.
Pics?
I stopped using BeReal a few months ago after they kept adding unwanted features (the entire point of this app was its simplicity) and my friends were leaving the app. Sad to see it has these kind of ads now.
