Is the option of legal compliance a bad thing? They have corporate customers.

If there's no opt-out, that's a different story.

It's plain FUD. systemd always had fields for the full name, email address and location. They were optional, just like the date of birth. Bad systemd!

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anthk 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Is not FUD; the full name, email and the rest were not META/corporations mandated, which are lobbying for it so they can earn money with users' preferences. Get your spyware to somewhere else.

If META's business model is not lucrative, is not my problem.

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gruez 7 hours ago | parent [-]

>which are lobbying for it so they can earn money with users' preferences

Given it's a field where you can put absolutely anything in (and probably randomize, if you want), how is this different than the situation today, where random sites ask you for your birthday (also unverified)? Moreover Meta already has your birthday. It's already mandated for account creation, so claims of "so they can earn money with users' preferences" don't make any sense.

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anthk 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Keep gaslighting:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/foss_age_verification...

Good luck when most libre users toss RH/Debian because of this and embrace GNU.

	▲	gruez 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>Keep gaslighting: This is against HN guidelines: " Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." >The contents of the field will be protected from modification except by users with root privileges. So... most users?