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Comment by e12e

18 hours ago

Some discussion here:

https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/546

Eg:

> FWIW, I just tested crypto.getRandomValues() behavior on googlebot and it is also deterministic(!)

That makes sense. I'm not sure why anybody would generate UUIDs in browsers though, it seems to defeat the purpose.

  • Tell that to Segment. Hopefully they've fixed that, but they didn't seem to think it was a problem years ago (spoiler: it was a big problem).