WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23年前Websites 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.worldWhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23年前message-square87fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejoyjoy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3年前 One vote per IP-Address allowed. They already have your IP. “Incognito” mode doesn’t change that.
minus-squareBraveSirZaphod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3年前That does have the consequence of allowing only one person to vote per public IP, which on large networks may correspond to quite a lot of users. That probably doesn’t matter much for a simple internet straw poll, but I can imagine situations where IP-based uniqueness isn’t reliable enough.
minus-squarePokadots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3年前What if you have multiple people voting from the same place/public IP?
They already have your IP. “Incognito” mode doesn’t change that.
That does have the consequence of allowing only one person to vote per public IP, which on large networks may correspond to quite a lot of users.
That probably doesn’t matter much for a simple internet straw poll, but I can imagine situations where IP-based uniqueness isn’t reliable enough.
What if you have multiple people voting from the same place/public IP?
Device fingerprinting