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by jefftk 2062 days ago
That is deterministic, but the key thing is that it is not reversible
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Technically, you could enumerate all four billion IP addresses (multiplied by all common user agents) to reverse it. This is, however, prohibitively expensive for tracking, so I think it does the job.
Not without the salt, which they delete every day. Pretty much impossible.