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by politelemon 2190 days ago
I remember several years ago using https://newguid.com which was pretty much the same thing - no page furniture, just the new guid. Sadly the domain seems to be on sale now!

There's also https://www.newguid.org/

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> Sadly the domain seems to be on sale now!

Which is a perfect example why it is bad to rely on a service like this to generate your IDs.

What if I bought it and started emitting predictable IDs? Or non-unique IDs?