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On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states (lists.ubuntu.com)
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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It's not though. It's literally asking the user "how old are you?" and not even caring if they lie. It's not even requiring a date, just a number of years.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It’s not even requiring a date, just a number of years.

    Several posts in the mailing list thread specifically mention adding Y, M, D fields for DOB.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    As an option, so it can automatically increment the brackets.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Which gives away the whole birthday because applications requesting the age bracket can memorize values and notice what day they change.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    That is a good point. Websites also if they are visited daily or if a web beacon or such can access the API.

    Manually adjusting the brackets until 18+ (or just lying about the precise date) would grant more privacy. I can see making that trade-off though.

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