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Are they expecting parents to be held responsible when their kid gets given a laptop and doesn't put in the right age? Or is it just a best effort thing that "p
by Glyptodon 2mo ago
Are they expecting parents to be held responsible when their kid gets given a laptop and doesn't put in the right age? Or is it just a best effort thing that "parents who want to" can opt in to and which mostly serves as a shield for online platforms who wave the "but age API said" flag whenever something sketch happens?
- inigyou 2mo agoIt's opt in. You can say your kid was born in 1900 if you want an unrestricted internet.
- birksherty 2mo agoMeh. It's a trick by facebook and others to harvest data and blame people later saying people volunteered the data. Feels like hn is filled with these proxy accounts to support fb, google.
- inigyou 2mo agoBut they get less data because of this, not more. They're supporting this to offload liability, not to get more data.