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Re:The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back by martin_a on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:35AM (#30083502)
You could always hash the IP on the client side before sending it to your counter. That way you have no information which you can backtrack to a specific IP and therefore a person.
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Re:The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back by BenjiWiebe on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:40PM (#30089780)
Except there's so few IPs (v4) you could just bruteforce it in not too much time.
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Re:The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back by WesolyKubeczek on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:46PM (#30092395)
There are different kinds of hashes. You can, for example, assign numbers to your incoming IPs. The first one to come in gets 1, the second gets 2, and so on. Numbers zero out at midnight, correlation between them and real IPs are at the load balancer. Good luck bruteforcing these.
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