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App for kids is deceptive

YouTube app for kids is deceptive, say consumer advocates Eleven advocacy groups have teamed up to protest content on a new youtube mobile app for kids. According to an Associated Press report, their letter to the FTC described the app as “stuffed with advertising and product placements”  that take unfair advantage of young children. For example, they cite a seven-minute video of Disney characters inside a toy McDonald’s, drinking Sprite.

 
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