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.
“Hey kid, want some happysticks?”
You don’t want to sell me happy sticks. You want to go home and rethink your life.
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Its supposed to be but idk how it’s regulated over the internet.
The same way it is in the physical world. It’s illegal.
TMK it’s not a crime only advertising to children, but it definitely should be.
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.
Nearly all social media apps teenagers use accept such ads, BeReal is just cheaper because it has less users.
You let your kids watch ads?
Let them use freedom respecting software. Don’t give your kids crack.
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.
there’s ways to impliment adblock dns.
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.
