WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 年前Websites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up112arrow-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 年前message-square25fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredanprs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 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-squarewander1236@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 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-squareUllallulloo@civilloquy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 年前The EU has made logging IP addresses generally illegal.
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.
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.
The EU has made logging IP addresses generally illegal.