Bye-bye, Pinterest.

[terrigarland@mas.to]

Bye-bye, Pinterest.
#privacy

[lonm@social.vivaldi.net]

@terrigarland I know it won't ever happen, but it would be very amusing if some automated ad system started churning out stuff targeting people born Jan 1st 1900

[kc@social.coop]

@terrigarland Everybody just gonna be born on 01/01/1970 and if they don't believe that then that's a them problem

[lispi314@udongein.xyz]

@terrigarland Do they verify it or can one enter unix time 0 as usual?

[dtluna@pl.kotobank.ch]

@terrigarland lmao enter a fake date

[terrigarland@mas.to]

@dtluna I could, but I don’t want to encourage these kinds of requests

[terrigarland@mas.to]

@lispi314 Not sure. When I saw this request, I just closed the app.

[mo@mastodon.ml]

@kc bonus points: they will spend time trying to find a nonexistent bug in the code

@terrigarland

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@terrigarland
Time to go when platforms require information that is none of their business.

[josh@hactivedirectory.com]

@terrigarland Alternatively: Pick the oldest goddamn date it will allow.

In one of the Google accounts I had to make for a project I think I'm like well over 200 years old.

[notyourfanboy@kolektiva.social]

@terrigarland
I had always assumed that everyone entered 1/1/1990?

It's fake data, which they can't verify. Who cares?

[josh@hactivedirectory.com]

@terrigarland I change my profile picture often and forgot I'd left it on this grumpy old looney tunes lady. Heh, fits nicely with my 200 year old birthday in signups.

"You want a drivers license? Honey I'm older than photography."

[kc@social.coop]

@mo @terrigarland

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@josh Me, too! I once had a mail provider asking, and I'm born in 1800. I still remember the French Revolution! @terrigarland

[mldkyt@soc.mldkyt.com]

@terrigarland Remove the first 2 lines of the text and that's the only purpose they're collecting this for.

[terrigarland@mas.to]

@mldkyt Absolutely!

[petesmom@kolektiva.social]

@terrigarland
Yup. If they didnt need it yesterday or for decades prior, they dont need it now.

[terrigarland@mas.to]

@Petesmom My account is over 13 years old. That alone should be enough for them.