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Re:Ask HN: Ideas for offering a free trial without users abu... by gitgud on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:19AM (#36195805)
Like others have mentioned, there’s many ways:

- Hash each pdf, check if it’s been run for free before

- Hash IP addresses, check before allowing free trial (can lead to many false positives though)

- Use local storage or cookies to detect if they’ve done the trial or not (easily circumvented, but not by general users)

Probably a combination of a few of these would give what you want

Re:Ask HN: Ideas for offering a free trial without users abu... by alfarez on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:02AM (#36196292)
I like the cookie idea. Thanks.