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A comment on Ask HN: Has Google figured out you gave them a fake date of birth?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Has Google figured out you gave them a fake date ... by slim on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:59AM (#27059970)
Or simply chose 1st january 1970 as your date of birth
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Re:Ask HN: Has Google figured out you gave them a fake date ... by jqpabc123 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:08PM (#27068483)
Google is a data driven company. They know based on nothing but sheer statistics that this date is most likely fake.

Why make it easy for them to identify fake data?

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google figured out you gave them a fake date ... by nielsbot on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:34AM (#27060181)
ha.. that's what I do too.. Guess it's not unique.
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Re:Ask HN: Has Google figured out you gave them a fake date ... by ntnlabs on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:01AM (#27060713)
Soooo many people were born on that day ;)
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Re:Ask HN: Has Google figured out you gave them a fake date ... by Crosseye_Jack on Thursday May 06, 2021 @06:14AM (#27061146)
Valve reported in 2013 that 93% of its users were born on January first.

I’m not sure it’s related but I find it amusing

> January 1, 2021 Minus 9 Months Would Be: April 1, 2020

News just in 93% of PC gamers born because of April Fools Joke gone wrong.

Yeah I’m sure that’s it ;-)

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