I don’t see a good reason why this is information my profile must have [firefox_bPG0pQWNtE]

The message has been removed from the dashboard and settings page for existing members. The birthday is used to verify ages per our privacy policy, and we have plans to use your age to personalize future features. We’ll revisit the requirement later once those features are closer to being released a…

I have a feeling that it may be related to this thread, Justin said he’s putting out a fix on Monday, so hopefully that will resolve your issue too. [image] Can't save Plex Scrobble settings Questions & Help Every time I try to update my Plex Scrobble settings…

That’s unfortunate, I didn’t realise it was a new requirement, I haven’t changed settings in a while…I guess if this a permanent thing, you could just put a random birthdate in the field, I doubt it would actually have to be yours to work. @justin can you confirm this is a permanent change?

@justin any update on this issue?

Yes, the settings page should now save correctly. However, we do ask for a birthday now to make sure we comply with the terms of our privacy policy.

Privacy policy doesn’t mention anything related to age at all. Could you please elaborate? Please clearly explain what the birthday is used for. Currently shown reason implies you got into astrology… I can’t see any reason whatsoever why you would need the date.

Section 3 of the privacy policy indicates Trakt is only intended for people 18 and older. Adding a birthday helps us verify that.

It’s intended, but not limited to. According to PP there’s still no reason to ask everybody for their birthdays [1000008288]

I suspect this is, in a simple form, and for lack of a better term “An ass covering exercise” for data collection, where I believe (no legal expert here) that collecting personal data from a minor (or someone under the age of 18) legally requires parental consent. If a minor was to enter an incorrec…

In such case just a checkbox “I am 18 years old or older” would be more than enough

Can't change settings anymore without adding birthdate

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jmxd (Jamie) June 28, 2024, 7:41am 18

Great

I hope it will remain optional as i am not interested in personalization.

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