For the love of god, do not try to bandaid this with more privacy invasive unregulated age-verification.

That is not the issue. The issue is the apps themselves and the algorithms, and a profound lack of parenting.

lol as if they’ll ever stop exploiting kids for profit “healthy” or not. look no further than the fact that for years and years they’ve been filling school vending machines with energy drinks that are barely a step above poison, which i witness kids buying the tallboy monster cans more than once a day every single day