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-square68fedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up189arrow-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-22 years agomessage-square68fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenieceandtows@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years 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-up3·2 years ago One vote per IP-Address allowed. They already have your IP. “Incognito” mode doesn’t change that.
minus-squareBraveSirZaphod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years 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.
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.