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The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) most recent data shows cases of violent, unruly passengers increasing aboard flights. Airlines reported more than 5,600 cases of unruly passengers this year through Dec. 14 and more than 4,000 cases of “mask-related incidents.” “There are more than 5,000 incidents already that have been violent in nature on planes, and so many of them are tied to alcohol,” Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) told Yahoo Finance. Markey is on the Senate Committee on Commerce,… Source link

If you’ve ever had a Father’s Day ad offering great deals for your dead dad sail into your inbox, you know that online advertising can be disturbing sometimes. Children’s gifts for people struggling to get pregnant, pet toys for your deceased doggo, the list goes on. Google is taking a small but helpful step to help people control which ads they run into. Starting with YouTube in the U.S., users will be able to toggle off ads for alcohol and gambling — two subjects that are… Source link

Google has announced today that it’s rolling out the ability for users to limit how many alcohol and gambling ads they’re shown (via Search Engine Land). This should be a welcome feature for users who may be sensitive to seeing alcohol use or gambling, or are looking to avoid those topics. While Google has previously allowed users to hide specific ads, this change affects ads category-wide. It’s also already had restrictions on the categories based on age and national laws — the… Source link

YouTube users will be able to opt out of most gambling and alcohol adverts if they don’t want to see them, using tools set to be rolled out by Google in the UK next year. Google told the Guardian that it was responding to feedback from users concerned by the number of ads for alcohol and gambling that they were seeing online, both on YouTube and on third-party websites. It is already possible to adjust the content of personalised ads, which are based on users’ browsing history, via… Source link

A woman has been filmed causing AUD$180,000 worth of damages after storming an Aldi and smashing bottles of alcohol, causing great concern among customers. The video was recorded at a supermarket in Stevenage, UK, on Wednesday (local time) afternoon. Footage shows the woman wearing a hoodie and a backpack sliding bottles of alcohol off the shelves with her arms. She then slips in the mess she created and falls to the ground. “Oh god, she’s not right,” a man is heard saying off-camera. The… Source link