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by benoau 25 days ago
> Our operating systems and apps don’t collect personal information, profile children, inject targeted ads, or create addictive design patterns.

Really this was a preventable problem all along, if Google and Apple had any standards. There was a point where Apple was going to ban ads in children's games and analytics too - probably the exact moment where we could have avoided all this, if they hadn't relented under pressure.

> “Apps in the kids category may not include third-party advertising or analytics,” the new guidelines say. Previously, the guidelines only restricted behavioral advertising tracking.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/apple-kid-apps-trackers/