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You can make any argument you want if you completely change what we are talking about.

“What if instead of a user agent string, HTTP headers contained a string of your DNA, or a count of all the women that’ve ever rejected you for trying to get them to install Gentoo?”. Time to boycott web browsers I guess! even though none of it is mandatory! You’re really asking for someone to condescendingly send you the Wikipedia page for the slippery slope fallacy. I’m not going to be the one to do it, but I came close.

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If we could add arbitrary fields to HTTP headers and the IETF started adding PII to every request then worrying about what other fields they will add is a valid.

Systemd is doing just that and calling everyone who disagrees with them fascist.

If you care about privacy, the user struct has had a real_name field since (at least) 2020: https://github.com/dylanmtaylor/systemd/blob/7a858878a03966d...

Do you feel like systemd has been collecting your PII since 2020? If so, you have only yourself to blame, since it only stores what the user types in and nothing more. Birth date is exactly the same. Type some nonsense in that field if you like, or leave it blank.

>Do you feel like systemd has been collecting your PII since 2020?

I don't know, I use Open BSD.

https://man.openbsd.org/passwd.5

  The gecos field normally contains comma separated subfields as follows:

    name    User's full name.
    office  User's office location.
    wphone  User's work phone number.
    hphone  User's home phone number.

I see you support identity verification after all. They're collecting all this personal information! What's next, a felon flag?

Maybe one day you'll switch to a freedom respecting OS.

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