I agree with you, however I still see it as a problem given with how I’m certain it’s going to be used. It will be used to gather demographic data and help fingerprint users/devices. It’s widespread adoption will cause it to become nearly mandatory to use the mainstream internet.
“Oh, your device doesn’t report the user’s age range? Sorry, our service isn’t available for you.”
If, and I do stress if applications require it filled out, there are simply going to be an awful lot of epoch birthdates in their data. And frankly a lot of people, myself included, who will step up and write replacements to these applications in order to give a giant middle finger to authoritarian governments/companies as a result.
It’s very mild this, and as it has no ‘verification’, it’s just a meaningless string of numbers.
I agree with you, however I still see it as a problem given with how I’m certain it’s going to be used. It will be used to gather demographic data and help fingerprint users/devices. It’s widespread adoption will cause it to become nearly mandatory to use the mainstream internet.
“Oh, your device doesn’t report the user’s age range? Sorry, our service isn’t available for you.”
If, and I do stress if applications require it filled out, there are simply going to be an awful lot of epoch birthdates in their data. And frankly a lot of people, myself included, who will step up and write replacements to these applications in order to give a giant middle finger to authoritarian governments/companies as a result.
It’s very mild this, and as it has no ‘verification’, it’s just a meaningless string of numbers.