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Cieplak
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Can websites personally identify visitors?
f :: IPAddress -> [Maybe EmailAddress]
I am guessing that in order to get this function to work, the ad company would have a contract with a company such as LinkedIn or Twitter, who can perform this mapping, based on their server logs.
VMG
on Dec 8, 2012
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IP address alone isn't sufficent, browser info is also needed
chm
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Which would be quite vile.
kordless
on Dec 8, 2012
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And probably illegal.
Evbn
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That data is guaranteed to be public, per the rules governing the domain name registration system.
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