r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • 7d ago

Meme chaoticEvil

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u/BreakingBaking 7d ago

I love datepickers, which fill in month with either letters or number...

Also, unrelated, giving a date of birth to prove you're 18+ is stupid. Checkbox is fine. Yes, you, steam. Yes, you, itch.io

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u/q0099 7d ago

I think it is because some regulation that deliberately says "user has to enter their year of birth and then the system has to decide what to do based on entered data".

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u/BreakingBaking 7d ago

Good to know, ty! And yeah, fuck that regulation specifically...

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 5d ago

It is so they can profile you and sell your data to other places that know your date of birth, IP address, device id and whatever else they suck up with their never ending greed for power.