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exfileme   06-12-2008 at 10:28:18 PM

Is it me, or are age gates simply useless? Any kid can enter a false birthday and have access to the "age protected" material.

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purplerat   06-12-2008 at 10:40:49 PM
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It acts as a sort of disclaimer for sites with adult material. Of course anybody can lie (I usually just drop the year down to one that is a acceptable). But it protects the site from having parent's complain that minors are accessing material they shouldn't have. By going through an age gate the user accepts the sites TOS. If they lied then they broke the TOS and the site is not at fault. At least that seems to be the logic behind it.

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strangestranger   06-12-2008 at 11:04:47 PM
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yes the are in practice but obviously are there for a reason as purplerat points out.

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