Implementing an anonymous "like"-function for my webpage
I'd like for my users to be able to "like" my blog posts as an extra point of feedback for me to consider while writing. This should be done without creating an account as I'd expect no one to invest that much effort into my website.
For now I've settled on using some hardware + software characteristics to create an anonymous fingerprint of a users browser in order to make a small attempt at weeding out duplicate likes.
Is there any obvious negatives to storing these fingerprints as plain text in my DB? They're not specific enough to identify a user (nowhere near) and I can't store them hashed since I have no username or the likes to search the tables with. This approach eliminates the need for cookies (which I would like to stay away from if possible) and would give me "good enough" protection against refreshing and liking again.
Something does still feel a little bad about having the fingerprints just laying around in plain text though. Am I too paranoid?
For now I've settled on using some hardware + software characteristics to create an anonymous fingerprint of a users browser in order to make a small attempt at weeding out duplicate likes.
Is there any obvious negatives to storing these fingerprints as plain text in my DB? They're not specific enough to identify a user (nowhere near) and I can't store them hashed since I have no username or the likes to search the tables with. This approach eliminates the need for cookies (which I would like to stay away from if possible) and would give me "good enough" protection against refreshing and liking again.
Something does still feel a little bad about having the fingerprints just laying around in plain text though. Am I too paranoid?
