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On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states (lists.ubuntu.com)
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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

Which gives away the whole birthday because applications requesting the age bracket can memorize values and notice what day they change.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 point 7 hours ago

That is a good point. Websites also if they are visited daily or if a web beacon or such can access the API.

Manually adjusting the brackets until 18+ (or just lying about the precise date) would grant more privacy. I can see making that trade-off though.