How naked should I make my product?

Re:How naked should I make my product? by jasonkester on Thursday June 28, 2012 @04:09AM (#4170735)

Think about the alternatives you're comparing:

[Frictionless]: cookie + record in the database + random userid

[ForcedAccountCreation]: cookie + record in the database + arbitrary username + meaningless passwordhash

I can't think off hand of any advantage the things in that second list give you that you can't get from the things in the first one.

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Re:How naked should I make my product? by eshvk on Sunday July 01, 2012 @12:09PM (#4185149)

I will be the first one to admit that I don't know participate in the date aggregation point of the pipeline so my knowledge is rusty. Say one was designing a system where age, sex information was important. How do you keep track of this information:

1. Across multiple computers that the person might be using?

2. Expiring cookies?

Thanks

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