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Very excited by the title, but very disappointed by the content...

This is not true unique visit counting. Which can be achieved using non unique values being set in browser storage, which is privacy friendly in my eyes.

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I agree with you. It's privacy friendly to have a cookie stored on the browser with a boolean only. Unfortunately it's not allowed by GDPR without asking for consent first. Would be open to other ways without cookies and fingerprinting. I think there is no other way.

So even if it’s obvious that there is no unique ID in there, you still need to show the notice?

We really need to lobby for a smarter law.

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