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My gmail account still has the "First off, welcome. And thanks for agreeing to help us test Gmail." mail in it from June 2004. The account itself is over 21 yea
by bigiain 6mo ago
My gmail account still has the "First off, welcome. And thanks for agreeing to help us test Gmail." mail in it from June 2004. The account itself is over 21 years old. I wonder if I'll get forced to age verify myself any time?
- cm2187 6mo agoYou are just a row in a database. Column can’t have nulls.
- Mordisquitos 6mo agoSELECT id, full_name, IFNULL(age_verified, acc_created < DATETIME_SUB(CURRENT_DATETIME(), INTERVAL 18 YEAR) AS age_verified, FROM google_accounts
- Mordisquitos 6mo agoAs the owner of a GMail account which is also of legal adult age (and a Reddit account which will be 18 this year), I am morbidly curious what will happen once these mandatory "age verification" start to be enforced. It should be trivial for Google and Reddit to grandfather-in accounts which are more than 18 years old (arguably less, who created their account when they were, e.g. 5 years old?). However, I'm betting they will come up with all sorts of rationalisations as to why this is not possible, anything from the bullshit ("not technically feasible" my ass) or the self-contradictory ("an account may have changed owner"... so in violation of the ToS? And what's to stop an account from changing ownership after age verification?). I admit I am prematurely riling myself up with indignation for something which may never happen. Maybe I am wrong and Google, Reddit, etc. take the common sense approach, but I have no hope in it.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 6mo agoSince we all know that age verification is just tracking validation, then your predictions and indignation are justified.
- washadjeffmad 6mo agoMine did, once, and it hasn't been requested again. It was also, until recently, accepted by age verification services as indication of non-minor status.