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It's been open to everyone 13 and up since 2006. I would know, I was a teenager at the time. And I looked it up before commenting. And age restrictions online are, well, easily ignored.

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I still enter January 1st, 1900 when given the chance on web forms.

Partly out of habit, partly laziness, and partly for the satisfaction of exposing the stupidity of the age questionnaire.

1/1/2000 is less scrolling.

You can hit numbers (or letters) on most dropdowns to skip entries; home/end key shortcuts also tend to work.

It's not stupid. The purpose is to shift the blame away from the website when you access something you shouldn't.

That is still pretty stupid. Either the website shouldn't be responsible for controlling access or they should have to take steps that are actually effective for controlling access. The idea that they have the responsibility to control access to their website but can fulfill that responsibility by doing something that they know is completely ineffective is pretty stupid.

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