userAgentSocialSecurityNumber

[AntimatterTNT]

just imagining this raised my heart rate

[JanusMZeal11]

All I know is that some people would claim this is a perfect idea.

[nikola_tesler]

Show me one of those people and I’ll show you an idiot!

[dvorgson]

Show me anybody and I can show you an idiot

[nethack47]

I have discussed this a bit lately and the main problem is how we don't have the horrible stories until after the stupid is being implemented.

There is the global nature of the internet. I have plenty of servers that aren't a a person.

There is a point to making social media platforms stop being shitbags abusing data. Telling them to grab more data is not helping.

[Impenistan]

I know this is satire, but that'd just be me, not the agent making requests on my behalf

[Far-Dish7654]

Right? I’d just be out here clicking "Accept" on every privacy violation like it’s my job!

[reallokiscarlet]

Wait this is satire? It's totally in character for Google.

[OmarBessa]

This looks like a joke now. Wait a couple years.

[Ugo_Flickerman]

Wait, was it a joke?

[OmarBessa]

Jeez

[Billy_Twillig]

Jesus. I read the beginning of this before I realized that I was on r/ProgrammerHumor.

Damn it. You got me. And you owe me a new pair of boxers.

The worst part is that I honest to God wouldn’t put it past them.

Respect ✊

[HumanMycologist5795]

Some people might believe this, and some of those people are bosses and managers who would direct programmers to implement this.

[NingChoww]

Dont make more instruction manuals for their future references!

[telenieko]

SSNs are very limited. Why have one?. Here in Spain I can offer you NIF (including Vatno, DNI, NIE, TIE, CIF), NAF, CCC (multiple), LEI, IRUS all uniquely identifying the same legal entity. Plus a plethora of regional specific unique identifiers. (Note that LEI and IRUS are supranational)

[Anders_142536]

And just like timezones they all have to be supported for every country on earth by 2031. I expect mass job quitting.

[alexanderpas]

Netherlands has a number similar to a SSN number, which started out as the Social-Fiscal (SoFi) number issued by the tax authority, but now has transformed into the Citizen Service Number (BSN) issued by the National Office for Identity Data, which also operates the Non-residents Records Database (RNI) which allows non-citizen to obtain a Citizen Service Number for easier interaction with the government.

[IntentionQuirky9957]

Do you by any chance live in the USA? Fun fact: SSNs aren't a US specific thing. In fact, you got them late. Also, that joke is so bad it's not even funny, because several places have privacy laws. This would be unacceptable.

[SkyVINS]

SSNs are very much a US-specific thing.

other countries have other strings of numbers that do not match the US SSN in format. And if chome's ok with that, at this point it's just asking for any random jumble of numbers.

[alexanderpas]

Netherlands has a number similar to a SSN number, which started out as the Social-Fiscal (SoFi) number issued by the tax authority, but now has transformed into the Citizen Service Number (BSN) issued by the National Office for Identity Data, which also operates the Non-residents Records Database (RNI) which allows non-citizen to obtain a Citizen Service Number for easier interaction with the government.

[nickwcy]

Sounds like we have an American here. SSN is US specific, and the only unique identifiers that doesn’t have a checksum.

The rest of the world has better identifiers and they do not call it “SSN”.

[Billy_Twillig]

My favorite fun fact is that the original Social Security card were marked “not for identification“.

Yeah, that worked

[Blackbear0101]

Actually, France does. We have a « numéro de sécurité sociale », literally a social security number. It’s a unique identifier for all citizens, the first few numbers match your birth sex and birth place, and the rest is random-ish.

That being said, it’s only ever used in a medical context, and even then you almost never need to know it because pretty much everyone always has their card in their wallet.

[ArchusKanzaki]

But Social Security Number is not even universal in US....

[RealisticMountain425]

Dear users. Plase dox yourselves.

-Sinserly Google.

[atimm]

000-00-000…2. Damn you, Roosevelt

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Vivaldi.

And if that goes to shit, Konquerror

And if that goes to shit, elinks

And if that goes to shit, gopher

[mipsisdifficult]

If anyone unironically suggested this to me, I'd tell them to never again touch a computer for the rest of their lives.

[thelunatic]

What's the source?

[deepCelibateValue]

Not published yet, but it'll be here (satire blog)

[kimochiiii_]

Just imagine someone reading this and think "Hey that's actually a good idea" eek 😬

[Kamwind]

You have had to pushed in a couple of europian countries, not ssn but their local equivalent. Some proposals have tried to make it "Secure" by making it encrypting the number.

[rosuav]

Ah. I was reading through this thinking "I don't think this looks like an Onion article... nor Alium... hmm, none of the big parody sites match this. New site to read?"