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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sometimes I wonder what the gender field is even for anymore. In this case, it's clearly there just so you can select that option.

As an aside, a website I used to use decades ago had a relatively harmless vulnerability in its "sex" field in the profile editor, allowing you to submit any value you want, and the website would render what you submitted. The field was also specifically called "sex", not "gender". You can imagine what values people put there.

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Of course my sex is <script>(function(){while(true){alert(":3")}})();</script>.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 18 points 1 week ago

Ah, transfem I see :3

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

it uses textContent instead of innerHTML tho

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mfs putting "yes please" and doing a dad laugh

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Austin Powers had that joke...

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

He stole it from me

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago

This one looks like an effort to flip off conservatives without them noticing.

[–] i_ben_fine@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

reminds me of a time a friend of mine couldn't sign up for a music site without selecting male/female and I fixed it using a similar vulnerability

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Male

Female

Consumer of our commodity

The 3 genders

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago

Shoulda just set it at 2.

  • Ice cream lover
  • Godless heathen
[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seriously though, there's no need for this on most sites, forms etc. We wish they'd just do away with such things altogether.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's only there because their ads want it and companies they sell your data to want it so they know what forced preferences society has told you to have and they can target you with those.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lol, they cannot get my preferences from my sex, gender or any meaningless pieces of information.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 1 week ago

All they care about is the statistics of which groups are going to be more likely to buy their product. They're going to sell a lot more facial hair products advertising to people identify as male than if they spent the same amount of money to advertise to anyone with a less targeted ad.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Not your preferences personally, but the preferences they think you have based on those categories because there are a lot of preferences that society says people of those genders are supposed to prefer. It's used in almost all advertising categorization because the majority of people give in to conforming to those preferences in order to fit in. Most men don't wear lacy pink and purple or they get called sissies or whatever, so they don't advertise lacy lingerie to people categorized as men for example. Otherwise they're wasting their ads. But LGBTQ+ people aren't really considered in these things because most ad companies are too conservative and even admitting LGBTQ+ people even exist is hard to get people like that to do.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But do you love ice cream?

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

Yep :3. I eat a lot of that stuff. I mean.. I usually buy it in 5 liter tubs lol

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 1 week ago

Corporate inclusion done right, how hard is that, Target? Just call your enby customers Targ... Wait, no.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Huh, while I am a man, I'm an ice cream lover first and foremost

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Rideshare app.