Logging provider failures without storing anything about the user

<p>When something breaks on my video downloader, I need to know about it. But the site stores nothing about its visitors — no accounts, no cookies, no database — so the usual approach of logging a request with a user ID and an IP address was never an option. I had to build a failure log that tells me what went wrong without ever recording who it happened to.</p> <p>The problem is real. The downloa

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