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I agree with that. If profiling-based ads were allowed, minors would no longer receive ads for booze and porn. They'd have to ask their older brother about the real internet, which is embarrassing.

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Meta profiled for vulnerable, low self-esteem minors (eg by monitoring added and quickly removed photos). It was used by advisers to push ads for beauty & lifestyle products feeding on depressed teenagers. Booze is non issue compared to that.

It goes well beyond booze and porn.

Or find it themselves.

Good thing no one did that in the mid-00s. Nope. Nobody. God, can you imagine if they had?

Its now about alcohol. Its about paw patrol.

I don’t think the mentality, “people would do it anyways,” is convincing. Just like we don’t put Playboy in Grocery store checkout there’s a reason some advertising isn’t front and center.

Considering grocery stores around here in the US are now running gambling machines I think you underestimate what grocery store operators are willing to sink to.

Playboy was always in the grocery store checkout in usa, it sometimes had a black cover over it, but that was usually only for the real porn. My first glance at playboy was in 1st grade at my first sleepover, I don't think anyone even liked girls at that point. It was purely about it being forbidden, and guess how it was obtained? Yes the older brother of course.

I often wonder how much better my life would have been had it not been for that day? /s

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