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It is just a field. What it contains, if anything at all, is irrelevant.
Every step towards making people feel at ease giving personal information away, makes the next one easier.
This is step 1.
Final step: Scan your passport to verify and populate the date of birth field.
I remember when this happened for the real name, email and phone number fields.
Slippery slope fallacy
Discord. Microsoft.
It's not a fallacy if it's an actual slippery slope.
I'm sure you think you're smart dropping a short, "insightful" three word post. But you might have missed the constant falling down we've been having in every possible places these last few years. It's not a fallacy when it turns out to be a series of fulfilled plans.
Patrick is that you?
fallacy fallacy