Tracking unique visitors without cookies

Software Development, Programming Languages, DevOps & Infrastructure(inmargin.io)view on HackerNews
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Author: jamie_davenport

Date: 7/9/2026

Article Summary:
The article discusses the challenges of tracking unique visitors without using cookies, exploring various strategies and their trade-offs, and introducing a new approach called Margin that uses a day-scoped hash to identify visitors without storing any data on the user's device.