alt Hacker NewsThe problem is not that it's hard to cheat (it's easy), the problem is it makes you officially a liar and liable for "illegal app use".
It might not be a problem for you, but some underage kid, who lied about their age, gets addicted to a game with in-game purchases and gets into financial trouble now has no recourse against the company who made the addicting game.
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lesostep • yesterday at 3:09 PM
Does this imagined underage kid that right now lies about his age in UI-form have a case because it wasn't on OS level?
I genuinely don't know, and it's hard to see what's the differences between those two cases are.
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There's no liability in the law for a child who uses an over-18-signaled account and accesses over-18 content, nor for a parent who gave that account to the child. It's all the parent's decision if the child should be restricted or not.