Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-86.122.47.51-20180828175100/@comment-1038387-20180828190620

Mainly, to protect a vulnerable group from being exploited, like targeting them with ads. Among other reasons.

Even if Europe were to ever change that to six or younger (they won't, but go ahead and ask your representative in the European Parliament to bring it up), FANDOM - which is an American company - would still have to comply with the American law COPPA - the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which puts the minimum age at 13.

Minors cannot give legal consent for a company to store their personal information or track their behavior with cookies, so these laws are in place to make sure companies don't do that.