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Unique Visitors = 1/10th of Unique IPs?
Max Fomitchev submitted a little blog entry where he proposes that the ratio of unique IPs to actual unique users is 10:1. This flies in the face of the numbers you usually see attached to these sorts of things. I'm not sure about the logic he uses to come up with these numbers either.
This whole anti-cookie thing drives me nuts since they really are harmless for the most part.
Cookies are tracking mechanisms. If I walk into Safeway I don't want to have a sticky note with a barcode stuck to my arm that will stay there until 2038 unless I manually remove it that gets scanned every time I walk in and every time I pick something up off the shelf.
There's no reason I should leave a brightly colored trail of everything I ever do on the Internet. The only reason I've ever heard is that it provides information and storage is cheap. Information is power, power is beneficial. What kind of deal is that, where I lose my privacy and the provider receives benefit? No thanks, I'll continue to opt-out of the tag-and-release program.