Possibly linuxYou guys fell for clickbait
irelephant [he/him]Storing a users birthday is useful metadata anyway. Iโm surprised it wasnโt stored before.
The age isnโt verified is any way. You can set it to the 1800s for all it cares
driving_croonerHow is that useful information? To what purpose?
๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐ Auto-filling those โyou must be at least X old to access this contentโ inputs could be one? Eg Steam could skip that page directly when accessing 18+ games.
I suppose you could ask the same for the realName and location fields that are already in systemd.
Lorem Ipsum dolor sit ametThere are jurisdictions where Steam has to explicitly ask every time you open an age-gated page, thatโs why they do it and havenโt stored it before. Thatโll presumably not change.
They ask each time because they donโt want to store the data themselves if they donโt have to. With this, they wouldnโt have to.
Name and email are useful for network admins to know what user is responsible for what process and location is used for timezone configuration. Autofill information can be get from the browser. What is next, systemd asking for credit card and full address?
Samskara- Congratulate the user on their birthday.
- recommend age appropriate software for communication, learning and games.
- statistics on the demographics of the user base
EldritchFemininityDonโt forget the personalized ads! ๐ซ
Drunk & Rootcompamys who want to de-microslop and still need feilds like that for whatever purpose