WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agoWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up197arrow-down1imageWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldWhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agomessage-square77fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredanprs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoWouldn’t the better solution be to keep a log of previous client IPs, on the server side? Sure, VPN will circumvent it, but it’s much easier for me to clear a cookie 100 times then to connect to 100 different VPNs.
minus-squareUllallulloo@civilloquy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoThe EU has made logging IP addresses generally illegal.
minus-squareCynosure@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoIPs rotate too often and it would only allow 1 vote per modem.
minus-squarewander1236@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoIP blocking would be really bad if the poll is for students staying in dorms at a university or for people on the same cell carrier.
Wouldn’t the better solution be to keep a log of previous client IPs, on the server side? Sure, VPN will circumvent it, but it’s much easier for me to clear a cookie 100 times then to connect to 100 different VPNs.
The EU has made logging IP addresses generally illegal.
IPs rotate too often and it would only allow 1 vote per modem.
IP blocking would be really bad if the poll is for students staying in dorms at a university or for people on the same cell carrier.