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How the fuck does the ID work?
| Welcome to anonymous world.
You have it all wrong. What you think should be right is precisely what it is not. Not because some fault or smth lacking but because probably you come with the wrong expectations and concepts of how information flows and more importantly, the persons behind it.
You might want to check out boards and forums powered by ubb, xenforo, phpbb, etc. Those allow user identifications and user work in ways that are not as alien for you.
| You are getting the wrong idea, I'm just asking why the fuck when I'm out of my house my id is different and can change 5 times in the same post and when back home it can get back to the first one, stay to the last one or became a fifth one
| Because there is a hashing algorithm that uses as seed a combination of your ip address and some randomising factor there. So you get out of home and your ip changes and the resulting ID changes. You get back after a while, probably you retake your initial ip address and the random number hasn't timed out, so you get a different ID. If any of those have changed though, your ID will differ too.
| Ah, and when you're out of your house and you're using your phone, you frequently will be switched from cell antenna to cell antenna, your ip will probably change too in the carrier's network and so for each of it you will be generated a different ID by the hashing algorithm.
| Probably some random number linked to the session on the site, just gotta check the git to be sure because taking guesses without seeing the source code woulde be wrong
| Okay thanks, makes sense
| Ah, not OP but thanks for explaining, I thought it was the same all-round and got concerned about muh anon
| I usually end my messages with. ~D.D to show it is me.
| Ok that makes sense. I was having the same issue.
~D.D
| Is this the new /u/
~D/./D
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| It is making my head so confusing like whenever I comment in a post it sometimes changes, I don't care much of this feature as the main purpose is to mantain anonimatus but I guess if I'm the creator of a post I should be staying like that in the same post if people are talking to me and I want to respond