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Veronica Explains

"we need to know your age" no you don't

You already know my habits, my marital status, my job and future prospects, how many kids I have (or want), where I live, who I live with, who I live around, who my parents are, how much money I make, how much money my parents made, what kind of car I drive (or don't), what food I buy at the store, how long I've had my bank account, what kind of computers I've used, what books I read, what kind of laundry detergent I buy, what my favorite color is, who my favorite artist is, what my favorite show is, and what my favorite historical period is.

You don't need my age, you took everything else.

Assimilateborg 2d ago

@veronica they don't really want your age. It's just a pretext to get your government id.

Eric de Redelijkheid

@veronica
"Born?"
"Yes, definitely!"

@veronica Also, with most of what is listed there - even in isolation - you can infer approximate age well enough to determine "adult" or "not adult" pretty reliably anyway... not many children owning cars or sitting on 18+ year old bank accounts, for example. But even something like favourite artist can give away approximate age-range.

@veronica either way - you sure as hell don't need my ID or biometric data to know that an account I made in like 2009 is owned and used by an adult - Infants are not prone to creating new accounts on anything.

poleguy looking for lost tools 2d ago

@miss_rodent @veronica my kids had accounts created the year they were born. They were already 21 at the time of birth.

@poleguy @veronica They did not make the accounts the year they were born, the accounts may have been made that year - but I very intentionally specified "I made" and that infants don't make accounts.
An adult opening an account on their behalf is an entirely different concern (and any age-verification in that case should be handled by you - or their other parent(s)/guardian(s), the adults making the accounts for them, anyway.)

poleguy looking for lost tools 2d ago

@miss_rodent @veronica I was not disagreeing with anything you said. Very far from it.

I knew more than 16 years ago how absurd it was, even for my kids... that I put in my action of protest on their behalf. There is no benefit to a kid to be less than 21 years of age in the eyes of anyone asking on the internet. It will only inconvenience them, target them, and teach them to lie.

The whole thing is so useless for its stated goal and so transparently aimed at something very different.

@miss_rodent @veronica

Since you know my name and address, you can see I've owned a house for 30+years. Not sure I'm an adult though

@veronica Exactly. It's a power grab.

Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂2d ago

What they really want is a way to cut you off from the information you want.

Obey, or be cast as a 'minor', or a second-class citizen. (or maybe not even a citizen)

Henny Jakobsen 2d ago

|~hamu_sandowicz~|2d ago

@veronica how would you feel about an 18+ verification that didn't have a specific age?

Мя ��2d ago

@veronica AND, they already estimated your age through indirect methods & data leaks

Francis Mangion (M)2d ago

@mo @veronica Estimated, not proved.

@veronica
Given what they already know, they could make a pretty accurate guess anyway

@veronica they know it anyway

Raymond Russell 2d ago

And yet they still feed us ads for stuff we have already bought last week or changed our minds about after a couple of searches.

Carlos Solís 2d ago

It's just to make any criticism punishable in court, to be honest.

JustaJason 🦜2d ago

@veronica all of that right there. ☝️

They DEFINITELY never need to know my birth date. I have a fake one that I stick to for account recovery purposes.

Ben Avison 2d ago

@jay_chi @veronica Me too! Have done for years. Making out that I’m younger than I actually am, too, just in case anyone ever claims I’m trying to get age-related entitlements early…

Plausible Human Being 2d ago

What brand of condoms you buy and how often. Everything is bar coded.

Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦2d ago

They can already guess my age by my ability to use punctuation when appropriate.

Francis Mangion (M)2d ago

@KydiaMusic @veronica Er, no. Even though you do.

@veronica they want to know as much as possible which is fucking weird for a gov't/corp entity - they may as well be the same thing

Francis Mangion (M)2d ago

@veronica Actually they do need/want to. The other needs/wants don't cover it.

Unless they are already asking for your date of birth.

Whether it tells them something useful or actionable is another matter.

Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2d ago

@veronica And yet, your targeted ads are still hopelessly wrong....

@veronica eh...women and the problem they have with their age 😁

@veronica Remember, if anyone asks, your birthday is 01/01/2000!