Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

Post by Traubenfuchs » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC

dymk wrote: post #15

Age and gender are the two highest signals that targeted ads take into account. The Facebook growth team has always wanted to remove gathering age / gender from the sign-up flow (which reduces friction to sign up). But, ad targeting would take such a large hit, they could never do so. It was a huge deal internally when "Custom" was added as a gender option in the sign-up flow, and even then, there's a nudge towards t…

Post by Hizonner » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 5:14 PM UTC

basch wrote: post #20

Hizonner wrote: post #3

Does ANYBODY EVER provide an accurate response to a question like that (except when there's reason to believe they can detect it and do something to your detriment if you lie)? If so, why? Anybody who asks deserves to be chaffed into oblivion with garbage data. Especially, who would be dumb enough to admit to being under 18, or, worse, under 13? An 8 year old should see the obvious reasons not to do that. A bright 6…

Have you ever given the wrong information, and then later needed to use it as some type of security / identity verification? I know I've run into it at least once, I think maybe Microsoft, where having an unknown birth date on the account became a huge headache. Lesson learned. Write stuff like this down in a vault too.

Post by Ancient » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 5:15 PM UTC

user3939382 wrote: post #11

Hizonner wrote: post #3

Does ANYBODY EVER provide an accurate response to a question like that (except when there's reason to believe they can detect it and do something to your detriment if you lie)? If so, why? Anybody who asks deserves to be chaffed into oblivion with garbage data. Especially, who would be dumb enough to admit to being under 18, or, worse, under 13? An 8 year old should see the obvious reasons not to do that. A bright 6…

My "birthday" is January 1, 1970 (an homage to unix) for any database/system inappropriately asking. This way they don't have my data to leak or abuse, but I still know what I specified if I'm asked to verify it.

Post by WarOnPrivacy » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 5:18 PM UTC

Hizonner wrote: post #18

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Especially, who would be dumb enough to admit to being under 18 For websites that respect COPPA, under-13 might be your best bet for less targeting ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...

Yeah, but the problem is that it often locks you out of the site completely, which they don't tell you until you've answered. And when it doesn't, it often breaks features or locks down your access to content. I guess in theory it could also trigger them to ask for a note from your parents...

Post by mankyd » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 5:18 PM UTC

acd wrote: post #22

Coppa "Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule ("COPPA")" If the kids is below 13, targeting would probably not be allowed. "The act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information by persons or entities under U.S. jurisdiction about children under 13 years of age, including children outside the U.S. if the website or service is U.S.-based.[1] It details what a website operator m…