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-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-22 years agomessage-square87fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredanprs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 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-up4·2 years agoThe EU has made logging IP addresses generally illegal.
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.
minus-squareCynosure@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIPs 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.