Do you fill in your real birthday?
the magic of website's age check, everyone is born that day/month and at least 18 years ago xD
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There could be a discrepancy between real age and really real age.
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sometimes when I feel like it, but only because I think it'll remember my bday for a little while
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Im using enhanced steam so I dont have to enter anything myself.
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It's 2018 and everyone gets their identity stolen and almost every website and every product you buy farms as much info as they can from you to sell. I really hope people would know better than to give out any info about themselves anywhere online unless they absolutely need to for some reason.
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I'm just lazy and scroll the year until it accepts it. :D
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I do the same. I click up once off of the bar so it goes a full page and then pick a random year towards the top. I bet a large percent of the people that view the Steam site are born on Jan 1st :)
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Steam doesn't store the birthday you enter on the server, only in cookies in your browser, but your points still stand.
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93% of Steam userbase born 1st of January Nothing more to say :D
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Haha this is amazing! It proves itself as a very useful tool xD
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The sad thing is that some people in the comments don't seem to understand that the statement by Newell was a joke/sarcasm. Although, it would be hilarious if Valve really spent years of time and lots of money on answering the question why 93 % of the users have birthday on January 1st and that this would be the single reason they never found the time to develop HL3. People killed it by using fake birthdays :P
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It wasn't even by Newell, it was an article from "TheNobleEskimo.com" a "news"site that doesn't exist anymore for a long time now.
But yeah was(or is) amusing/sad how many people believe every fake story or conspiracy theory out there but won't believe in stories that are actually true (or at least nearer to the truth than things like these...)
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I did set my Bday at one point and it usually was set at that automatically.
Lately doesnt do that anymore. So I just trow in 1999. Last year thats in the choosing field and that is 18 yo.
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lol, I always click once to go up a page and then pick a random year. I never realized that the top year is good enough. All these years I've been wasting a click :)
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I'm still stuck with old thinking, so when a website wants to verity I am over 18 and I wanna insert a fake date, I use at least 1984, which was the year I used when I was not 18 yet to get around age-gates. I'm almost 30 now ;_;
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I'd just wish i could put it in steam one time, and it would stop bloody asking me.
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For browsers there is an extension called Enhanced Steam, and that is one of the functions.
For the Steam app/program/thingy whatever it's called, there is not, so that sucks.
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Birthday is 1st of january so just changing the year to the correct one isn't too much effort... :3
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I am already over 18, however I just put smth random there, I think maybe like 1923? or smth like that xD
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For some reason Steam keeps forgetting the birthday i've put, so now i just pick a random year.
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I entered my real birthday the first time, but ever since it forgot for the first time I just input January 1st and roll the scrollwheel for a suitably old birth year.
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i use enhanced steam that skip it for me, highly recommended add-on
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Yeah its good, i use it too but i still use the steam app for the store a lot of times (maybe i shouldnt xD)
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What I don't get is why Steam keeps asking to verify age for owned games. Sometimes you want to go to the store page to remind yourself quickly whether there's cloud saves or whatever, and it's so dumb to keep getting age verification for games you already own.
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I accidentally made a gib invite only but i was wondering: Who uses their real age when steam ''asks'' for it
Here is the GA for the collector
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