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beejiuyesterday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Are your UUIDs generated client side or server side? If it's client side, it could be due to a crawling bot. Googlebot for example executes Javascript using deterministic "randomness".


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adzmyesterday at 9:18 PM

Googlebot's lack of randomness was the conclusion of a previous incident for that package https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/546