Information @Elucidating@mastodon.socialMy daughter doesn't understand commercials at all. I make sure to get 0 ad versions of every service she wants to watch.
But I do wonder in what environment she'll build up her resistance to ads. Kids from my generation tended to acquire a resistance by their teens because we were hyper-saturated with highly manipulative ads.
@Elucidating Maybe start training her bullshit meter with news and social media nonsense when she's old enough for that.
@Elucidating I don't think "ad resistance" is its own thing. there's no "immunity" to incorporating concepts you encounter in your vocabulary, and that's one of the more pernicious things ads do. teach critical thinking and new folks will recognize ads as abhorrent and manipulative and recognize that they should try to avoid experiencing them.
many North European countries have *never* allowed ads (on linear TV) aimed at young children, to the point they subsidise the production of TV for kids using taxpayers money (although often common European practice for adults TV as well).
This doesn't seem to cause issues when they kids grow into teens/young adults or make them more "susceptible" to advertising nor harm innovation as many of the more useful startups are from these same countries!