Trying to buy Minecraft asks for permission from a "parent" that doesn't exist
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So I've created an account for Microsoft, and upon trying to buy Minecraft for windows from the official Minecraft website, it asks for parental permission and sends a confirmation email. I'm not part of any Microsoft family and, thanks to bad design, it doesn't actually tell me where this email has been sent. What am I supposed to do?
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Well, when you created your account you told them you were under the age of 13, meaning you needed to have a parent email linked to your account to allow you to play.
I didn't tell them I was under 13 (I'm not) and it didn't request a parent email to be linked.
This could be an issue with the inbuilt microsft privacy settings on the impacted account
https://minecrafthopper.net/help/guides/xbox-privacy/
another way to solve this is by someone creating or linking their account as a "parent" account to the problem account - then setting the accounts privacy restrictions from the parent account