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IP address is not accurate enough to reliably ascertain such a thing. First, there's the problem of NAT. Second, there's the problem of dynamic IPs. My IP addre
by asto 15y ago
IP address is not accurate enough to reliably ascertain such a thing. First, there's the problem of NAT. Second, there's the problem of dynamic IPs. My IP address changes everytime my modem is switched back off and switched back on. I'm sure a lot of other facebook users don't have static IPs as well.
Point I'm making: This data is important to them and they're recording it. They have an easy and reliable way to access this data through persistent cookies which they've - ahem - left on user clients by mistake. A lawyer would call that circumstantial evidence. Of course, I can't be fully sure of my accusation. Hence the question mark.
- pluies 15y agoJoachimSchipper is right that it doesn't have to involve cookies, and so are you that IP addresses aren't enough. Facebook could be using the same methods as Panopticlick (http://panopticlick.eff.org/ http://panopticlick.eff.org/), which are incredibly effective assuming the two users log in from the same browser.