Self doubt stems from here.
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
713 points (98.6% liked)
Memes
45132 readers
3258 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Actually for most people, the browser sends enough information in the headers, ignoring cookies, to identify them as unique. You can check out an experiment about this at https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint. Combining that with an ip gets you pretty close.
Well that’s still a form of session ID. But you are saying things like “most people” and “pretty close”, so it’s not a very good session ID, since it’s not guaranteed to be unique.