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why in the everloving hell do age gates make you enter an exact birthdate rather than a simple yes/no button.

• moralestapia 2y ago
  Because you store that as well for "data science".
  • Solvency 2y ago
    if a data scientist thinks that data is even remotely accurate they should not be a data scientist.
    • bsimpson 2y ago
      I'd be curious to see how the distribution compares between birth records and agegates. I expect an oversaturation of dates like 1/1/80. Hell, I guess we can use 9/9/99 now too.
      • OkayPhysicist 2y ago
        I seem to recall Steam publishing something like that a while back. A huge fraction of their user base was born on January 1st ;)
        • jorams 2y ago
          That may at least partially be because the year is the only part of the birth date you enter that's saved for the next time Steam shows you an age gate. I've tried to change it back to the correct month and day a few times over the years, but next time it will default back to year-01-01.