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by Terretta 4793 days ago
> wait wait wait, surely putting "You cannot use this website if you are under 13" in their terms of service is enough?

Absolutely categorically not.

A ToS clause alone has been tested and found not compliant.

For a while, when the ToS clause was tested and failed, the panic reaction acid test was asking for a valid CC.

Over the past decade best practice has relaxed to a gating page asking for confirmation of over age, or, for the more cautious, asking for the user to explicitly provide their birth year (not birthday).