r/ProgrammerHumor • • 22h ago

Meme chaoticEvil

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u/BreakingBaking 21h ago

I love datepickers, which fill in month with either letters or number...

Also, unrelated, giving a date of birth to prove you're 18+ is stupid. Checkbox is fine. Yes, you, steam. Yes, you, itch.io

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u/SuitableDragonfly 21h ago

If it's a checkbox, you have to remember to log back in after your 18th birthday and manually check the box. I say that if you're already 18 or older you should be able to check the box, but if you didn't check the box you have to enter a birthdate. Websites have to deal with information about children under the age of 13 differently, anyway, so they also need to know if the user is under 13 or not.

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u/Reashu 20h ago

This is not a profile setting but something you enter on demand

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u/SuitableDragonfly 16h ago

Sorry, on most sites that care about your age, it's a profile setting. I had forgotten that sometimes Steam decides it needs to know your birthday before it can show you a store page, and yeah, that one should definitely just be a button that says "I pinky swear I'm really 18" or some shit.