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Re:Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking co... by godelski on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:19PM (#31146075)
How fine grained detail do you actually need? I can't see how knowing if one person or two people in a house visited you're site helps. They could have easily just switched to their phone.

For logging, just hash it with a salt.

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Re:Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking co... by tantalor on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:37PM (#31146243)
> just hash it with a salt

This would not satisfy privacy maximalists because you can easily unmask users later.

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Re:Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking co... by davidmurdoch on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:38PM (#31146251)
Hashing is borderline PII since you can feasibly reverse it to a unique IP, unless you use a slow hashing function like bcrypt.
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