Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a long-running lawsuit by parents and their children claiming its YouTube video app collected data from millions of U.S. kids under 13 so it could target them with ads.

The Mountain View digital advertising and search giant “manipulated children using their personal information into extending their time on YouTube, which in turn increased the number of targeted advertisements shown to them, and increased the revenue earned by Google,” according to the lawsuit filed in San Jose U.S. District Court.

Google admitted no wrongdoing under the settlement. However, in a court filing last year, it argued that the case failed to claim specific losses or allege the YouTube data collection went beyond “routine commercial behavior into highly offensive c

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