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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 38 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Another little reminder:

  • if you play games, do not buy microtransaction items or, if possible, games that try to sell them.
  • If you are a parent, do not let your kids buy microtransaction items or games that try to sell them.
  • If you know a parent who is not a gamer, share these concepts with them. They won't have these sorts of things piped into their bubble under any normal circumstances.
[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 4 months ago (4 children)

My kids, 10 and 14, are very anti corporate greed and I couldn’t be more proud. They also complain when they aren’t on the local WiFi if they are playing mobile games because the ads don’t get blocked. A couple years ago my youngest asked me to turn ads on so he could hatch monsters or something faster, I bypassed his device and a couple months later he was complaining that the game is a time sink full of ads and he doesn’t want to play it anymore and wants ad blocking re-enabled.

They aren’t perfect and I have never tried to preach to them too much. Not really sure where I was going with this but your post reminded me how much I appreciate that my boys actively avoid and protest against playing games with ads and micro transactions at such a young age and I felt like sharing with someone.

[–] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Any tips to get started on in game ad blocking?

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

I run a pihole as the other commenter stated.

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