I got an email, which appears legit, from Disney+:
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Disney+ now requires additional information from the primary account holder, including your birthdate and what best describes your gender. To avoid any interruption to your streaming, please update your account with this information before December 8, 2022.
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I can understand the birthdate, what with all the new NC-17-rated Star Wars content coming out, but why would they need a gender?
@peterdrake Did you check the senders domain for credibility. My wife got a text similar to that 2 days ago, and immediately looked phishy. (especially since she doesnt have her number added to D+ lol)
@peterdrake Very interesting. Legit then. Maybe since their recently announced financial troubles, they need more data points of yours to mine and make some extra 💰 haha
@obi The (apparent) source, as well as the URL they want me to go to, are at disneyplus.com.
I know enough to search rather than clicking on a link. There I found the answer to the question, which is, of course, ads:
https://help.disneyplus.com/csp?id=csp_article_content&sys_kb_id=a3f7af9f87c791d44e3f7557cebb35d0