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-square83fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1162arrow-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 year agomessage-square83fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenieceandtows@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoIt kind of makes sense for strawpoll, because without some sort of cookies, they wouldn’t know if the same person is voting multiple times. But they should say something like ‘incognito mode makes the votes inaccurate, please visit on normal mode’
minus-squarejoyjoy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year ago One vote per IP-Address allowed. They already have your IP. “Incognito” mode doesn’t change that.
minus-squareBraveSirZaphod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThat 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-squaresacbuntchris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat doesn’t work for dynamic IPs
minus-squarePokadots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWhat if you have multiple people voting from the same place/public IP?
It kind of makes sense for strawpoll, because without some sort of cookies, they wouldn’t know if the same person is voting multiple times. But they should say something like ‘incognito mode makes the votes inaccurate, please visit on normal mode’
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.
That doesn’t work for dynamic IPs
What if you have multiple people voting from the same place/public IP?
Device fingerprinting