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Why Rapleaf Does Not Use Unique Identifiers

If you ever need to drop data in a browser cookie, you generally have two options: dropping the data directly, or dropping a unique ID (or UUID, for universally unique identifier). In the latter case you’d have to store a mapping from UUIDs to data on your server, and whenever you see a cookie you’d [...]
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Privacy is an incredibly important issue to us at Rapleaf; it informs all our business and engineering decisions. Occasionally, privacy concerns can lead us to some really interesting engineering challenges. We love this: not only do we get to work on protecting our users’ privacy, we also get a chance to tackle ridiculously challenging problems—stuff [...]
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