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The G+ post illustrates that pretty well - Yelp doesn't have fine grain per user control, they have monolithic per-IP filtering. That shouldn't be terribly surp
by bifrost 13y ago
The G+ post illustrates that pretty well - Yelp doesn't have fine grain per user control, they have monolithic per-IP filtering. That shouldn't be terribly surprising to anyone, because cookies and user profiling are hard.
- dfc 13y agoI did not mean to submit this question under the guise of a complaint/demand/question. Given the recent interest in anonymity it was meant to be a cautionary tale.
- bifrost 13y agoManaging user traffic is actually pretty easy, you just build a state table and then meter access by request volume. The problem often becomes managing the state table and not the actual code complexity itself, but most of the time that can be avoided by not tying the state table into the site's authentication backend. I haven't seen any good "off the shelf" systems that do this so maybe there's a niche to be filled.