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Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage parental consent for apps, not Meta (techcrunch.com)
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[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is a hack.

Not only will they save money on developing the functions, but it effectively sidesteps regulations by allowing kids to access adult material on their platform from another device without parental control.

It's basically a "have your cake and eat it too" position. We can only speculate that Zuckerbot 3000 wants an in to exploit kids.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Of course he does.

One of Meta’s major value propositions for companies is its advertising tools. Marketers love marketing towards children because A) they can be impressionable, and B) they bank on kids annoying the shit out of their parents to spend money on whatever fuck random thing that’s being advertised. Marketing towards adults is harder because we got responsibilities and other things to consider before spending money willy-nilly on fun things, but kids don’t have that.

[–] bane_killgrind@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you making a Revolting Cocks reference

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

No, no I did not, and now I will humbly ask you to explain the reference, because you've piqued my interest.

[–] bane_killgrind@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] bane_killgrind@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

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