11-11-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com

Do your children’s apps give them the hard sell?

Parents’ unwillingness to stump up cash for children’s apps is exposing their offspring to adult ad-sales techniques• Safe gaming: 21 family-friendly apps for childrenPop-up advertising designed to be hard to close; in-game characters showing disapproval if you don’t make in-app purchases; ads with Donald Trump pressing a “nuke” button. None of these things should be appearing in children’s apps, but they were all found by researchers at the University of
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