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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  • SirLeToet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I need to confirm my online purchases through my banking app. But I willingly dont connect my banking details anywhere.

    I find it weird that payment details can be stored for one-click purchases later on. It is just so highly and easily abused.

    We dont accept this kind of payment behavior at a store for obvious reasons, but online it is considered normal? I guess it maximises profits, which are important.

    And when these carefully designed systems for low barrier purchases are abused by a child, all responsibility goes to the parent?

    Wild how normalised this behavior is.