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Comment by efficax

5 hours ago

did anyone ever make use of this in practice? 32 redirects to construct a unique id seems very impractical

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vlovich123  5 hours ago

Ad networks don’t care. It’s a data leak. Even a few extra bits can be valuable to tag you with a better uid.

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