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minus-squarejoyjoy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year ago One vote per IP-Address allowed. They already have your IP. “Incognito” mode doesn’t change that.
minus-squareBraveSirZaphod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 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-squarePokadots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoWhat if you have multiple people voting from the same place/public IP?
minus-squaresacbuntchris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat doesn’t work for dynamic IPs
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.
What if you have multiple people voting from the same place/public IP?
That doesn’t work for dynamic IPs