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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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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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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This is actually an ESRB restriction (rather than COPPA):https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/20251/is-an-age-gate-required-on-sites-for-m-or-ao-rated-games …
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