Is it possible to detect if someone is 17+
I’m making a game that potentially involves a lot of bloody effects. I was wondering if there’s a way to detect if someone is or isn’t 17+ so I can toggle the blood effects on or off for them.
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Sadly you cant access that information as it is PII (Personally Identifiable Information).
You may have to create a separate place that has its age rating set to 17+
But the thing with that is that your age has to be 17 or older (not account age)
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i dont think its possible.
but you can make a button that toggles the blood effect on or off like most games.
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No, but you can detect if a user is 13+ by checking if they can view ads using PolicyService (due to roblox’s updated guidelines last year), or checking if specific keywords are filtered for the user. (this can maybe be a solution)
A former way of confirming if a user is 13+ was if they had www instead of web on their domain.
ex: www.roblox.com instead of web.roblox.com
Their real information is PII, and you are not allowed to obtain it due to it being illegal or something.
You can have it, just not for malicious purposes, and with consent from what I’ve heard.
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Former? When did they remove this?
From a couple of posts, and me testing with another account, web no longer appears as the URL, with only www being present.
I’m not sure if thats just me, but it appears that web.roblox.com is no longer being used
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I don’t know but as far as I am aware 17+ users have voice enabled so why not just check if voice is enabled or not? Here is a topic: How do I check if a player has voice chat enabled?
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The age restriction for voice-chat was reduced to 13+ so now that won’t work sadly, I think the best way to go about this is what @GlitchedAli said and make a button to toggle it, it could show up the first time someone joins your game and then keep it in the settings.
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Quite stupid on how it was reduced to well 13+ as we all know the 13+ on roblox are questionable. It should have stayed 17+. Issue with GlitchedAli’s solution is that it’s inconvinient.
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No. COPPA law prevents us from knowing the age of a user.
This breaks TOS, you should not be aware of the age of a user. I know it is frustrating to not be able to get that information, but it is how it is.
Are you sure that even getting a category is a violation of TOS? In that case, I shouldn’t take the risk.
Why would knowing somebodies age break COPPA or reveal PII? It’s not like knowing their home address, or full name. It’s just a number between 1 and 100.
It was stated a few times by users that there were no dedicated method to know any users’ ages because of such act. I flagged the post and got was told there was indeed a problem.
EDIT:
Read a little bit further into what you said, I do agree with you that the system that was written does not gather the full date of birth registered on a user’s account, it just gathers the year of birth that was set.
I do have to say that I am not familiar with those american laws due to the fact I am European, and I only heard of COPPA, but I never looked into it more.
It looks like ROBLOX wants to prevent any attempt of getting user age information, even incomplete ones, in order to remain as law-friendly as possible. If it does not break COPPA, nor PII, it will probably break an European law, or whatever laws you can find somewhere else.
Being completely law-friendly, as a multinational company, is very hard. Lots of their careers are about law expertise in various different places.