>I suspect they don't want to tip their hand I think that's a bridge too far. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone would actually want a world where ad-targetti

>I suspect they don't want to tip their hand I think that's a bridge too far. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone would actually want a world where ad-targetting data could be used as a form of ID to prove your age... If you want the data to be as good as an ID... then everyone would need to offer some kind of government issued ID in order to create an online account, in order to make sure they weren't a child. Anything short of that, and you're going to have accounts that porport to be 21 when the 'real' user is only 12. Or maybe you think they should use Machine Learning? So you then monitor every youtube video the 21 year old user watches, and determine that they are watching My Little Pony content over and over... so surely they must be a child. And then lock down the account and prevent them from making comments/purchases/etc? The child protection laws are very strict. I don't think any of us would like a world where you get treated like a child (e.g. no right to view or participate on most of the internet) because of some algorithm. Civil suits against content creators seems like one of the only viable ways forward to me, as stupid as it is.