What type of anime mech you buying that you need crypto for?

So the article starts out with saying that Epic are the creators of rocket league, which is wrong and off to a bad start. Reading the article I'm wondering how illegal the practices were compared to what companies do all the time. I'm not trying to what aboutism this, but the collecting data from children fine seems dumb, because children lie about their age online all the time. Then that data is collected. The article doesn't specify that the users were known to be children and still had data collected, just that they collected the data and their data deletion requests were a pain to deal with. The article also mentioned Google had the second highest fine for YouTube data collection of children.

For the other claim I can't speak to since I've played a single match of Fortnite, but non confirming purchases is annoying as hell, but also very common. It should be removed from all products, especially if purchases were able to occur even on loading screens. Now, parents could choose to not have credit cards attached to a child account and could also use parental locks on consoles the require a code to buy stuff, but that puts too much parenting onto the parent.

People love to hate on epic and Fortnite because it is popular, but they've honestly been good for the industry standards when it comes to micro transactions. There are a lot of predatory games out there, even rocket league changed its loot box garbage when epic was buying them. That's not saying they are moral or perfect, but I'd rather their practices than roblox and the tons of other free to play garbage out there.

Edit: The FTC report is much better than this article. Can be found here.