You need to track the user for a poll. Sessions don’t work since private browsing enables duplicate votes. Tracking the IP can block users from the same network/wifi. Cookies get auto-sent and browser storage is only clientside. Really not many more options aside from making an account on a site and logging in. I find it a pretty reasonable solution actually.
Cookies fall short just the same as sessions. you’re asking the user to pinkie promise they won’t clear their cookies / modify them.
An account seems the most logical. You need to avoid duplicates ; it’s not really about privacy here. You’ll only make a tradeoff between accomplishing no duplicates and letting users do what they want.
There’s no way to prevent a malicious user from voting multiple times in an online poll, unless you can somehow tie it to a real world identity (and even then it’s not going to be easy).
This is just something to stop the workarounds that a 50 year old CEO was aware of.
Clearing cookies is super easy, barely an inconvenience. If someone wants to vote on something a lot and cookies are the only barrier, they might as well not be there
Cookies are really inappropriate for this use…
You need to track the user for a poll. Sessions don’t work since private browsing enables duplicate votes. Tracking the IP can block users from the same network/wifi. Cookies get auto-sent and browser storage is only clientside. Really not many more options aside from making an account on a site and logging in. I find it a pretty reasonable solution actually.
Cookies fall short just the same as sessions. you’re asking the user to pinkie promise they won’t clear their cookies / modify them.
An account seems the most logical. You need to avoid duplicates ; it’s not really about privacy here. You’ll only make a tradeoff between accomplishing no duplicates and letting users do what they want.
It could be useful to prevent accidental duplicate votes. But definitely not sufficient for malicious actors.
There’s no way to prevent a malicious user from voting multiple times in an online poll, unless you can somehow tie it to a real world identity (and even then it’s not going to be easy).
This is just something to stop the workarounds that a 50 year old CEO was aware of.
I’d think they serve their purpose just fine
Clearing cookies is super easy, barely an inconvenience. If someone wants to vote on something a lot and cookies are the only barrier, they might as well not be there
This. Did it before to fuck with people in online forums