Do you mean the mere mention of age verification prompted them to react immediately in support of it, even if it is just a silly input field?

I was born on 0001-01-01

There are good reasons.

Uh huh

Like what?

I don’t see you getting involved.

Race, gender, sexual preference, these are all useful to someone and yet should not be data collected. Name, sure. Birth date, no. I’m fine with an Adult Boolean.

Good examples of things that shouldn’t be there.

Does it automatically expose this information to websites that ask for it?

No one is forcing the magic string YET. But to think some governments won’t enforce that later is contrary to reality. The direction of the world is very clear…

Whatever you wanna call it. Let’s add that. Gender, gender between your legs, marriage status, race is also super important.

It’s just a field… so why not?

We should have them add ss# too, since it’s non-privileged. What could go wrong?