• foggy@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Lol they already know, man. They’re just asking to make it feel like consent.

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    5 hours ago

    Honestly, it might not be a terrible idea to give them a bogus date, if you’re concerned about privacy and want to encourage poisoning data that data-miners are using.

    If they require some sort of actual validation, like an ID document, then I get you.

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah, give a date you’ll remember that isn’t related to anything personal to you and yours. Something like April Fools, May the Fourth be with you, etc.

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        I remember reading someone on some service…maybe it was Steam?..saying that some wildly disproportionate percentage of their users had January 1 as their birthday. As in, people didn’t even want to bother setting the month and day, which defaulted to January 1, just cranked the year back to whatever was required to avoid age-restriction hurdles.

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          I wish they wrote down the date somewhere and don’t ask me again (probably they don’t want so don’t need to bother with storing sensitive privacy data)

          But I registered in 2008, at this point they can assume I’m at least 18, no?