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akersten 71 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Op...

> The brackets are a few years wide, so it could take a bit of waiting.

There are millions of people moving between the proposed age brackets every day. This is a DoB-gifting firehose to ad tech.

object-a 71 days ago [–]

Ad tech doesn't need this feature to know roughly how old you are.

crooked-v 71 days ago | [–]

Also, various sites were already legally required to gather this information anyway to know if someone is over or under 13.

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