How to track users of my application without forcing them to register?

Question

What is the most common cookie tracking strategy for users without having to register?

Create a guest account, assign a GUID, and then put that GUID value in your cookie? Is there a more common way to do this?

Although this is a common web application issue, I am using ASP.NET MVC.

Answer 1

One popular solution when you write is to send a GUID to the user inside the cookie. Obviusly this solution only works if the user has cookies.

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