Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion
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The button said approved every time as nobody had set a limit.
  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Didn’t really need this analogy, as it’s not as clear in this case, more like a child was able to start a run of papers on their own and cost the printer $100k running the printers for 15 minutes.

    Should they have been in the printers with access to the buttons? No

    But again it’s Google

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Should they have been in the printers with access to the buttons? No

      agreed, the kid absolutely should not have had access to it. And Google explicitly forbids it. But the dad put the kid in front of it anyway and said “you can use it, but only up to 20 bucks” and walked away