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Investigate last-edited cookies for anonymous editors
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Mirror the work done on last-visited cookies to count global unique devices. James says this was actually implemented a couple years ago, but it didn't work out for some reason.

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nshahquinn-wmf lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Aug 9 2016, 5:09 PM
nshahquinn-wmf closed this task as Declined.EditedMar 5 2024, 8:36 PM

I don't think there's any real value in this, particularly since we are now moving to a world of temporary accounts where it will be easy to analyze return times of non-permanent editors without a very complex mechanism like this.