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    [–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    A username field isn’t for your real name, it’s for a username and it has always been for that. Stop being intentionally obtuse.

    I'm not talking about the "username" field.

    I'm talking about the "Full name", or "User name", or "Name" field in the OS - name depends on the language version and the OS itself. Stop being intentionally obtuse.

    What’s to stop them from using all of the required user fields and then running a background fingerprinting check and then using that fingerprint every single time you visit a site?

    What...?

    First of all: the OS username is not shared with the website.

    Secondly: websites already do fingerprinting, what are you talking about?

    People are defending this with such fervor, too

    Yeah, "stop overreacting" is such incredible fervour!

    but why would someone care so much about defending a date of birth field?

    I could not care less. I just find it weird that you guys panic about it so much, to the point of there being dozens of new systemd forks, just because a new optional field was added.