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Has this always been a security feature? I log into my main account all the time and it never asks me for my birthday. I guess I'll never get into my side account again...
The birthday requirement comes up even with a correct password and username if you have not logged into that account for over 6 months. (Or something like that, I'm not exactly sure how many months it is, but it's a significant amount of time.)
It is a fairly new feature that's been around for about a year.
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you could check the age every few days for as long as it takes for the age to change, then you'd know when the birthday was within a few days.
This is exactly what did when I had this problem. I have two accounts I've been trying to get back into since April. I'm Neofriends with them so I knew the year and went through a couple of months by hand but it was so frustrating I just gave up and waited for the age to change. I got back into one of them in August but I am still waiting on the other one.
I really think you ought to be able to request that they send you the birthday of an account to the email you used for that account if you've forgotten it. Just like they will send your password.
If a person isn't Neofriends with an account they've forgotten the birthday to it would be practically impossible for them to ever guess it correctly if the B-day was a truely random one.