• almost1337@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    I believe this is from a combination of factors, including the lack of revenue streams from young site visitors and the necessary protections and moderation being expensive to create and maintain. It sucks, but with the modern Internet it won’t exist for long if there’s no money to be made.

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      the lack of revenue streams from young site visitors

      Isn’t it just as easy to show ads to kids as adults? They have to be curated more to make sure porn ads aren’t popping up, but otherwise it should be the same (if not easier because kids are less aware of ad blocking software).

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        they’d also have to be non-targeted ads due to child privacy regulation, and a lot of internet ads that don’t pay for targetting are scams and porn