@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-square87fedilinkarrow-up1230file-text
arrow-up1230imageWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.world@WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-21 year agomessage-square87fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@danprs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•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-square@Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoThe EU has made logging IP addresses generally illegal.
minus-square@Cynosure@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoIPs rotate too often and it would only allow 1 vote per modem.
minus-squarewander1236linkfedilinkEnglish1•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.