Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion
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The button said approved every time as nobody had set a limit.
  • crashfrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 day ago

    Google is insane about billing any random ass card you’ve ever used in any system adjacent to them. I had them bill a domain name fee to my fucking government travel card just because I’d set it up once to pay for a hotel or something. Completely not the card I’d put in to pay for the domain name - they just changed it on their own.

    • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      That’s not what happended here though. Dad deliberately entered his business card and handed control if it to a child…