Debate won't change the minds here. I've never seen a privacy-über-alles person arrive at social media should not exist. Maybe you have?

I'd have to wipe entire years of experience raising my kids in a world of social media. How do you propose I do that?

If you aren't interested in changing minds, why do you comment in forum threads at all?

You've seen someone about face? Please share a link to the thread. I'd love to read it.

Sorry, but that's not an answer to my question. To be honest, I'm starting to feel like you're not really talking to me, you're just responding to me.

If you're asking for evidence of people changing their minds, I've done that, though I will admit I haven't done it in the past page of comments on hackernews.

Normally it's not a wholesale change of opinion, but a shift in nuance or a changing of details.

But even if I found such a thing, that doesn't answer my question.

Respectfully, I'll believe it when I see it.

Most of my interactions in age gating discussions on HN have pushed me toward indignation, rather than nuance. It's arguing against someone's hypothetical dystopian nightmare. I'm tired of the game. If they want to affect change, they can do it financially as I am.

Looking forward to seeing this same treatment on the privacy folks and how they respond.

So why are you commenting here?