WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1156arrow-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-21 year agomessage-square84fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredanprs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year 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-up4·1 year agoThe EU has made logging IP addresses generally illegal.
minus-squareCynosure@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIPs rotate too often and it would only allow 1 vote per modem.
minus-squarewander1236@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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.