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This is why you should take control of your own data, and not let your data in the hands of a company. Buy your own email address, set up your own blog self hosted.
Take the next 5 minutes to install thunderbird (you'll be impressed if you have not seen it in years) and enter the IMAP settings for google and download everything in the background while you work.
When your account gets hacked and you lose everything, you'll appreciate the backup.
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"Log onto our website, but only with your parents' permission!" died quickly a decade ago for a reason. There's virtually no way of validating that. Which is why I'm still surprised that movie and video game sites still use the faded "Enter your age to continue" screen.
How is adding a decade or two to your age when registering any less difficult to validate?
What about the Google commercial, where parents open a childs google account upon birth, fill it with images and commentary... Only to have it all deleted when Google get around to it?
Pretty well covered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010687 TL;DR: The account in the commercial is the parent's, not the kid's.
"Dear Sophie" does have a much nicer ring to it, I guess.
So - when was the last time everyone reading this backed up their gmail? Take the next 5 minutes to install thunderbird (you'll be impressed if you have not seen it in years) and enter the IMAP settings for google and download everything in the background while you work. When your account gets hacked and you lose everything, you'll appreciate the backup.
and be able to backup your imap mailboxes without a GUI
they've chosen to act apparently without ever considering how their actions might affect the people who use and rely on their services. Hyperbolic nonsense. Their consideration for multicultural, international, legal, technical, practical, and end user issues under time and effort constraints doesn't come out exactly the way you wanted it to under one edge case that you happen to hit therefore they "haven't ever cons…
Can you expand a bit on how a sentient human being, wishing to communicate with other sentient human beings, is outside the normal patterns of a communications system?
Whatever happend to "If you are under 18 (or 13?), ask your parents or gaurdian for permission"? Believe that's the current Dutch regulations, not an expert though. It's quite unfair to assume that companies will keep track of this. Kids under 13 should probably have parental/monitored internet usage anyway. (Though I have to admit to having had a Fb account back when it was 18+ when I was 17. School wasn't on Fb and…
It is really sad that Google can't figure out a way for those under 13 to have accounts, provided there is a parent signing off on it. And the first comment by someone about how their child can't log onto their Chromebook anymore is particularly disturbing.
To be honest, I think a large part of the blame goes to COPPA. I remember listening on those hearings, and those opposed to COPPA warned against this exact thing happening. They said that taking the decision away from parents would lead to disaster, and guess what, it has . Rather than blaming Google here, shouldn't we be writing our legislators to repeal COPPA? We should be telling them that this misguided law is st…
COPPA is fucking stupid legislation, but Google should at least provide a "parental consent" mechanism.
"Hey Mr Food-N-Liquor owner, I give you consent for you to sell my 18 year old alcohol" etc
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Pretty well covered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010687 TL;DR: The account in the commercial is the parent's, not the kid's.
Hard to believe the ad wasn't titled "Dear Sophie's Account Held by Myself, Her Father, Not to be Handed Over to Sophie until such time as she meets Google's User Age Threshold for Regulatory Compliance." "Dear Sophie" does have a much nicer ring to it, I guess.