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Advertisers REALLY want to know what age groups are into what.
Oh, and uploading your ID or whatever to do this guarantees they know who posted those pesky comments that do not align with the party values.
"We're protecting the children" per usual
This isn't about advertisers although they may be a bit player, this is about silicon valley, the technofascists, the national security dickheads, databrokers, and the like.
This is so much worse than advertising. This is connected to those data centers, brah.
The technofacists are the advertisers man. All that data is what fuels ads, surveillance and all the rest. They built the platforms and the intelligence capabilities. Whoever has the most data drives the most effective ads, surveillance pricing, targeted promotions, etc.
If they didn't start off early on using the data for advertisement, they wouldn't have continued their journey to use the same data for big brother tech. There's a ton of extra steps and things along the way, but at some point once a company starts making billions of dollars they all get into politics and lobbying (we really need to call lobbying political bribes.) They're just taking things a few more steps further nowadays. They are ALL complicit with what is going on.
Advertisers are their excuse, they are a user, not the primary one. This is about complete collection of data, fed into half baked ai threat detection, with firms like palantir making secret social scores to be secretly used against us in everything from business to government.
This is being spearheaded by the technofascists and others for that purpose, not advertising although they are in on it I'm sure.
Neither of those are the consumer.
Oh, serving you more relevant ads based on who you are so you purchase products isn't about you? :P
Okay, here's a stupid realistic answer: It might help stop kids from making purchases on adults phones without the actual adult.
But that's not a good answer even if it may be a side effect, because they aren't doing it to help us, they're doing it to own us. We rent our time here and have to work for it. They were born to never have to do anything but take our money, time, lifeblood, sanity, leisure, resources and potential. Simple really.