It's not though. It's literally asking the user "how old are you?" and not even caring if they lie. It's not even requiring a date, just a number of years.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

It’s not even requiring a date, just a number of years.

Several posts in the mailing list thread specifically mention adding Y, M, D fields for DOB.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

As an option, so it can automatically increment the brackets.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 19 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 15 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.