alt Hacker News> its forcing kids with no credit cards to download free and malware ridden ones
It very much is not.
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yfw • 12/10/2025
Because social media is so easy to cut out you dont need to ban it or its so addictive you do?
> its forcing kids with no credit cards to download free and malware ridden ones
It very much is not.
Because social media is so easy to cut out you dont need to ban it or its so addictive you do?
It very much is. Free VPNs almost always have some sort of catch. E.g. HolaVPN users agree in the ToS to become an exit node for other VPN users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN)
If social media is so compelling, then teens almost certainly will take whatever steps are necessary to access it.