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“Select your birthdate from this randomized list of possible dates.”

You wouldn’t.

Cannot imagine why this is being downvoted. Presenting users with a randomized list is a dark pattern that discourages use of the associated feature.




Randomization is required by the regulation. Another instance of what a smart person wants out of a feature and what the EU wants being very different things.


It's being downvoted because randomizing something that is by its nature chronological is very obviously different from randomizing the order of something where you want to explicitly avoid giving the impression that one takes priority over another.




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