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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Apr 2018
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    I'm driven bonkers by Compliance (TM) interpretations where "Look you know this is stupid and we know this is stupid but *shrug* Compliance." Example: Steam. I've paid them thousands of dollars for video games for 15+ years now. But they won't save my age because I might be 13.

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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Apr 2018
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        So prior to showing me advertisements for games which might offend my delicate childish sensibilities, such as sequels to games I've already bought and they know I've played for 20+ hours, they put up a "Give us your birthday to calculate your age" roadblock. But COPPA!

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Apr 2018
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        Them asking my birthday exposes them to personal information and if I'm below 13 then saving personal information about me is a COPPA violation so they helpfully say that ~immediately after they ask my birthday for the seven hundredth time they will promptly forget it.

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      4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Apr 2018
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        COPPA = Children's Online Privacy Protection Act = "Wait wait wait marketers are marketing to children? Oh lock that nonsense down; let's make it impossible to keep anything about a child in a database without parental consent. This have only the intended consequences, obviously"

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      2. Marshall Bowers‏ @maxdeviant 13 Apr 2018
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        I’ve wondered for a long time why they don’t save my age, and now I understand why. Super frustrating.

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      3. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle 13 Apr 2018
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        It's not clear to me that this is a *necessary* outcome of COPPA. Speculating without any direct knowledge, and not speaking as to goodness of this, it may be a dodge they use to *avoid* saving your age so as to maintain plausible deniability at the number of under-13s on Steam.

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        If only there were some way for them to use your age to determine if you're over 13.... Some kind of machine learning approach, maybe?

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      1. Ian Tyrrell‏ @RodeoClownII 14 Apr 2018
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        Steam also can't remember the fact that I logged in last time I wanted to buy something and said to remember me, so this may be incompetence, not malice, or bureaucracy... (Also, my birthdate is Jan 1... *pulls down year combobox and spins mousewheel* 1912)

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        I would be very unsurprised if their data shows meaningful account sharing between family members of clearly different ages, causing this response to risk mitigate

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