your argument is an oxymoron. if the data is useful meta data, but the user can just put what ever they want as the date then it’s not storeing useful data. and that means it should not exist.
unless the point is to use it in the future where the user can’t enter what ever they want and thus legitimizes all the commotion.
You can also store an email there, so it can be found by other programs, but you can also leave it blank, or enter a fake email if you don’t want your email to be stored.
Given the open nature of Linux, I find it hard to believe they can lock it down like that.
The point is to comply with the letter of a shitty law and avoid volunteer projects getting killed by lawsuits, while being useless for tracking purposes.
This law was written by Microsoft lobbyists so they can sue desktop Linux out of existence, and this PR prevents that.
Storing a users birthday is useful metadata anyway. I’m surprised it wasn’t stored before.
The age isn’t verified is any way. You can set it to the 1800s for all it cares
Yeah like the email address and the full name of the user.
… What do you mean it’s blank for 99% of users?
I have mine set ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
your argument is an oxymoron. if the data is useful meta data, but the user can just put what ever they want as the date then it’s not storeing useful data. and that means it should not exist.
unless the point is to use it in the future where the user can’t enter what ever they want and thus legitimizes all the commotion.
You can also store an email there, so it can be found by other programs, but you can also leave it blank, or enter a fake email if you don’t want your email to be stored.
Given the open nature of Linux, I find it hard to believe they can lock it down like that.
The point is to comply with the letter of a shitty law and avoid volunteer projects getting killed by lawsuits, while being useless for tracking purposes.
This law was written by Microsoft lobbyists so they can sue desktop Linux out of existence, and this PR prevents that.
Wrong. The earliest date you can set it to is 1900!!! 😠
Another datapoint for fingerprinting.
So don’t provide it or give it a fake value.
You could also just not set it instead of using a nonsensical date