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Nope, but that is an entirely different problem. Major platforms have to be legislated to tightly control which ads they run. The amount of misinformation spread through ads is enormous.
or maybe which age groups are allowed to see them?
There's no way to enforce that without massive privacy violations.
You want to be asked to scan your ID every time you use a mature website?
Is it? In your last comment you had said?
If you acknowledge that the "depression tests" which show up in targetted ads are not reliable, then I think we both realize a) and b) are not the goals of these tests. Making money is.
So people actually wouldn't benefit from seeing this, it might actually harm them by giving a bad impression and push them away from legitimate mental health professionals.