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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tal@olio.cafe 22 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.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 21 hours ago
tal@olio.cafe 21 hours ago
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, just cranked the year back to whatever was required to get over the hurdle.
Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
i have you know 1/1/1900 was a very good year for birthing gamers
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Yep. My take is to always give some random data, if it isn’t official stuff.
They sell/use that data to show you more convincing lies? Then there’s no issue if you lie too.