Ghost users? Can you explain this video?

Hello, thank you for taking a look at this. Video link at bottom.

Can you explain this to me?

Is this if someone visits your site without creating an account, Bubble makes a fingerprint of them? if so, where is that data stored? Im just a bit confused on this however would really love to understand how this works so I can put it to use.

Thank you in advance!!

Vid link = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl08xxnI0vo

Bubble by default will assign a unique id to any user who visits your site, which won’t be visible to you on any items they create in your DB. It will just show up as (deleted user). They do this by storing a cookie in the user’s browser. Whenever you do anything on a bubble app, such as creating a thing, bubble validates the action with an API call, and uses this cookie to validate it’s an actual user

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Yes Bubble create a user for each visitor. Data stored in cookies.

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So basically it just creates a temporary user in the database, but you can’t see it in the database yet until they create an account. If you have cookies enabled.

If they create things in your database, the creator will be empty if they never create an account. Otherwise, the creator will show up as that user if they do create an account. :blush:

Does that help?

Yes, Thank you. So simple that it was hard to understand. Have a great day!

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Glad that helped. :blush: