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Without reading the article, I bet these problems exists because kids/teens are playing "games" on mobile phones.

Big difference to PC or console games.

Mobile phones games are made only with one purpose, to vacuum parent's credit card.

I hope EU will put some measures in place, to ban Pay2win mobile phone games.



Interestingly the dataset they have on 9 year olds is about computer gaming specifically, and they show no correlation with gambling. The other dataset of 17 year olds is specifically about online gaming.


There's a push to get rid of most of the common practices:

https://www.beuc.eu/reports/game-over-consumers-fight-fairer...




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