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Comment by imiric

"We're sorry."

This is not surprising. Google has a history violating the privacy of and targetting ads to not only teenagers, but children:

- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/business/youtube-ads-kids...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/business/media/youtube-ki...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/business/media/google-you...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/technology/youtube-google...

When will governments wake up and put a stop to this? Their inaction is simply a sign of complicity. Absolutely disgraceful and criminal behavior.

Everyone working at these companies: you're partly to blame, whether you're directly involved or not. Reconsider the behavior you're supporting, and quit.

parent imiric 2 years ago

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