Technology

Seems odd that he made a new ad account and bypassed the spending limits.

At max, unless you're being invoiced by Google and have a line of credit, you can spend around $500/day. It's a lot of money, but it would still take months to hit $100,000.

Irresponsible father gives his business credit card information to his son, is shocked by the results.

Yeah that's why I only put virtual card number with a short expiration date and a locked amount.

At some level of carelessness or even stupidity, I can't feel empathy anymore.

I think if I was caught like this, the last thing I'd want to do is talk to the media about it. Not even under a pseudonym. But this story is probably not here to make Google feel bad and return some of the money. This is a reminder for parents everywhere to review payment and parental settings on anything their kids use online. You can be smug enough to say my 8yo doesn't stream on Twitch or whatever because why tf would you let them anyway. But you're deleting the credit card off of Google Play because you forgot it was there because parenting makes you forgetful at times.

No way I'd ever be paying that.

I know hindsight is 20/20 and all, but a vasectomy ten years ago would have been far cheaper.