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by themafia 116 days ago
Isn't the entire point of the ToS to make it legal to sell your personal information? Primarily to increase programmatic ad revenue?

Maybe we should just end advertising targeting anyone under 18. I wonder if by removing the financial incentive the problem would mostly sort itself out.

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At least outlawing user-targeted advertising and most of the related data collection & selling (for things like credit cards and magazines, too, shouldn't limit it to just things like social media) would fix an absolute ton of problems, or at least improve them a lot, including this one.

I'm not sure it's a total solution but it'd likely help, and there are plenty of other reasons to do it.