Possibly a new way to do privacy preserving session tracking - address split session tracking

[rouilj]

https://notes.normally.com/cookieless-unique-visitor-counts/

outlines a new way to do privacy session tracking. It preserves sessions across IP address changes.
It seems similar to the simpleweb anlaytics, I am not sure if it has a similar downside as it gets
updated for each request, not just once per day.

I think this is an issue for me as I have a number of sessions that change session id's but seem to be the
same session. I am connecting the sessions since the last page viewed in the prior session is the referer
for the page in the new session.

From what I can tell this is the only thing that can cause a change in the session computation for the same
browser as it occurs within a 1 hour time window so salt changeover shouldn't be breaking the session chain.

[amarchen]

Wow, that's a cool way to count unique users. If it works with caches enabled-disabled, then I'd guess it really follows GDPR (storing session IDs even for few hours even hashed is more questionable)