So first one was having to tell some yank company all my kids ages and gender (wtf?) to access their Disney+ profiles despite me being the adult who runs the account and having set appropriate limits like G and PG for them. Why the fuck does disney have to know a kid or a dog or a cat is watching if I pay the money. (However this started we all know Disney wants it for future targeted advertising and everyone in on this bandwagon for ulterior motives now)
Now my 17 year old (practically 18) needed to install an app in google play on his phone. Google play insisted on age verification. It wouldn’t accept his visa card. It wouldn’t accept his drivers license and then it shat itself but looks like he is verified now but now now it won’t let him install apps. It’s still happy to advertise to him though.
@shirro I can see me having fun in a while. I deliberately gave big G an incorrect birth year for my son so as to get him access to something. Can’t remember what. And now that’s all in Family Link.
I’m expecting the internet police to come knocking.
I gave a fake age years ago, only by a year to get around some bullshit. Had to correct that when I verified :-(
He is a good kid. He doesn’t give a shit about crap like social media. I just wanted to install an open source email client for our self hosted family email and I had to get it via f-droid because its apparently for 18+ on google play. Like he is old enough to download and compile it from source. What is this bullshit? It let him have Signal though that was a while back. The younger kids are all on family link - but 17?
So first one was having to tell some yank company all my kids ages and gender (wtf?) to access their Disney+ profiles despite me being the adult who runs the account and having set appropriate limits like G and PG for them. Why the fuck does disney have to know a kid or a dog or a cat is watching if I pay the money. (However this started we all know Disney wants it for future targeted advertising and everyone in on this bandwagon for ulterior motives now)
Now my 17 year old (practically 18) needed to install an app in google play on his phone. Google play insisted on age verification. It wouldn’t accept his visa card. It wouldn’t accept his drivers license and then it shat itself but looks like he is verified now but now now it won’t let him install apps. It’s still happy to advertise to him though.
@shirro I can see me having fun in a while. I deliberately gave big G an incorrect birth year for my son so as to get him access to something. Can’t remember what. And now that’s all in Family Link.
I’m expecting the internet police to come knocking.
I gave a fake age years ago, only by a year to get around some bullshit. Had to correct that when I verified :-(
He is a good kid. He doesn’t give a shit about crap like social media. I just wanted to install an open source email client for our self hosted family email and I had to get it via f-droid because its apparently for 18+ on google play. Like he is old enough to download and compile it from source. What is this bullshit? It let him have Signal though that was a while back. The younger kids are all on family link - but 17?
They don’t need to know, they want to know to make more profit, and daring you to unsubscribe.
We live in the Wild-West age of the internet where companies get away with anything they like