"Policymakers want app stores to act like safety regulators, but the mechanisms they rely on were designed for scale, speed and developer relations, and not for evaluating how apps affect child development or cause harm. That does not mean app stores could not adapt, Veale notes, but doing so would require a fundamental shift in how they operate." https://www.techpolicy.press/the-drive-for-age-assurance-is-turning-app-stores-into-childhood-regulators/
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@alderik Yes! And I would add the argument that the whole point of EU #competition regulation plus the #DMA is to break the "chokepoint" or "single point of enforcement" that app stores are at the moment.
And orgs like the Digital #Childhood Alliance are also technically wrong: focus on app stores to protect children is *not* an obvious one. As young people grow they learn to source their apps from all kinds of places, and they should.
In fact, any decent high school informatics course should teach kids how to circumvent app stores, root devices, and unlock bootloaders.