UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

Post by troyvit » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 6:25 PM UTC

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And Programmatic advertising makes this extremely difficult. Once you add a giant, automated ad exchange to advertising you've created opaque supply chains that help make it trivial to obfuscate who actually makes money from an ad. This article on ad fraud goes into more detail: https://xenoss.io/blog/programmatic-ad-fraud-detection

Agree on issues with programmatic. Compared to the number of dollars, and in particular number of dollars being spent on ads served to under 18s, programmatic is a rounding error compared to Google, Meta, TikTok etc. https://www.emarketer.com/uploads/pdf/US_Ad_Spending_2023.pd...

Post by someotherperson » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

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I could see supporting with this, but it does seem like an abuse of the 'for the children' argument for this. Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job. Also some chicken nuggets are bad, but some average a gram of protein per 10 calories, which is a pretty good ratio, and especially for frozen food. Can't help but think this is too broad.

> Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job. If true why do cereal companies spend billions on advertising directly to children? For the fun of it?

Post by canucker2016 » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 8:12 PM UTC

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Why is ground chuck safer than other ground beef?

Bacteria contaminates the exposed surface of foods. Pre-ground meat has a _lot_ of surface area exposed so the potential for contamination is high. If you get your meat as a chunk of chuck roast or larger primal cut, follow good food safety practices in how you maintain your workspace, and then grind the chuck and turn it into patties to be grilled the probability for serving a contaminated product is low. The proble…

Post by kgwgk » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 8:30 PM UTC

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> wherever you’ve pulled that from A dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dictiona... The wikipedia definition is strange. A pension is not a fund. A pension fund is a fund! (There is also a wikipedia page for that!) Apart from that how is “regular income paid by to someone who no longer works“ different from “periodic payments made to support the person's retirement from work” anyway?

Because you missed the original distinction, which is that an annuity — a product purchased using your pension savings where all the value is lost when you die — is not the same as other pensions, where for example you have stocks and shares paying dividends, in a pension wrapper, and those pass on to your estate when you die. The word pension is overloaded. A SIPP is a pension, the state pension is a pension, and pe…

Post by autoexec » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 10:50 PM UTC

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It baffles me that more countries haven't put legislation in place to severely limit what ads can be served to under 18 year olds (or at least under 16). I worked in an ad agency a number of years ago, and Phillip Morris approached us with a deliberate plan to launch big budget ad campaigns on social media platforms specifically because they could get in front of younger demos more easily (traditional media having ex…

My kid recently got a second hand iPad tablet. On it, she uses YouTube Kids. I made an account for her. Now, they ask _me_ for consent, since she cannot legally give it. They throw ads at her about toys, but this is illegal in my country to target children with ads. Ads are supposed to target parents, not kids. Now, if it were one ad at start, I'd hate it, but they go further: in a 10-minute movie, the thing quits li…