Date of Birth on games

Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:39 pm

When you load the game, the blue bar at the top (where the minimize, maximise and close buttons are) shows your date of birth. Why?
Try pressing F5 a few times quickly, and it shows you the URL of the game followed by ?DOB 0000-00-00 (where 0 is your Date of Birth)

Sorry if my message is hard to understand.

Website · Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:47 pm

The only thing I can think to attribute to this is to collect data on which age ranges use which games the most.

Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:10 am

I think it is for security purposes, or for verification. If I'm not wrong they used to show the e-mail on that bar.

Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:27 am

They did show the email previously, I'm not sure if they still do.

I think it's for verification, to stop people playing games on multiple accounts - most people aren't smart enough to put different DoBs.

Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:26 pm

but what if they're twins and both have an account?

Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:36 pm

They would probably register under different email addresses.

Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:32 pm

Alex wrote:They would probably register under different email addresses.

well... it's possible for one person to do that... i think twins might get frozen quicky on neopets if they only use one and the same computer...

Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:41 pm

Did you register Macromedia Shockwave in your name? It asks for your email and your D.O.B, that is whats displayed in the top bar, I think.

Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:38 pm

mizzy, it can't be Macromedia, a friend of mine uses my computer for Neo and she brought the dob in the game address to my attention. She didn't d/l flash or shockwave on this computer, I did. And no, our dob are not the same.

I think it's tracking/demographic information for sponsors. I think the other information still shows up in the address bar too - username, email. Just the dob is the first thing now.