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Occasionally I'll click on a site, say a brewery, that asks me to put in my birthday, usually though a slider wheel or form. 90% of the time I just go to a diff
by version_five 3y ago
Occasionally I'll click on a site, say a brewery, that asks me to put in my birthday, usually though a slider wheel or form. 90% of the time I just go to a different site. If I'm just browsing around I don't care that badly. Same with modal popups.
I suppose if I was a kid who wanted to get to a site, I'd be more likely to make up an age. My point is that asking stupid questions to anonymous users probably turns away more legit users than kids.
- nubinetwork 3y agoThe alternative is those third party services that make you take pictures of yourself holding your ID... I absolutely despise these services though, because it's a huge hassle, on top of the privacy concerns attached to it.
- thmsths 3y agoAnd in an ideal world that would be no big deal. Indeed when I buy alcohol at the liquor store the cashier does a brief check of the ID and inputs the DOB in his terminal. There is a good precedent for using my ID to check my age. But I have no illusions of what would happen if we used it for online age check: the picture of the ID would be stored forever. The website would try to collect all the available info and not just the DOB (which includes full name and address as well as height and weight) and try to monetize it. And then of course there is a the risk of data leaks. So in our current world I am afraid that online ID checks are a hard no.