WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 年前Websites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1176arrow-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 年前message-square88fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredanprs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 年前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.
minus-squareUllallulloo@civilloquy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 年前The EU has made logging IP addresses generally illegal.
minus-squarewander1236@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前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.
minus-squareCynosure@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前IPs rotate too often and it would only allow 1 vote per modem.
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.
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.
IPs rotate too often and it would only allow 1 vote per modem.