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Coming up with unique identifiers for every single specific recognizable product would be an incredible feat, that would have huge impacts beyond this. Now I'd
by makeitdouble 3y ago
Coming up with unique identifiers for every single specific recognizable product would be an incredible feat, that would have huge impacts beyond this.
Now I'd totally expect a brand to just renew identifiers at random and break any tracking that doesn't help them.
- thefurdrake 3y agoCool, as a customer I'd stop purchasing products that had short records.
- gambiting 3y ago>>Coming up with unique identifiers for every single specific recognizable product would be an incredible feat You mean like....barcodes that are on pretty much every item ever?
- makeitdouble 3y agoMight be surprising but those are not inherently unique to a product, the maker does whatever they want (if Chupa Chups decide to only ever use 100 barcodes and recycle them across products in time, they can). And they're also not completely unique internationally but I don't remember if there are any namespaces in the first place [edit: EANs are namespaced internationally, but nothing stops a maker from putting random codes if they're not going through standard distribution.]