Rotating unique identifiers

Static UIDs, while seemingly convenient, can introduce vulnerabilities. If intercepted, they can be exploited for unauthorized access or data manipulation. Rotating UIDs address this concern by constantly changing, minimizing the risk associated with compromised identifiers.

This approach offers several advantages:

• Enhanced Data Security: Frequent UID rotation significantly reduces the effectiveness of stolen or intercepted identifiers, safeguarding sensitive data within the API.
• Mitigated Data Scraping: Predictable static UIDs facilitate large-scale data scraping practices. Rotating UIDs significantly complicate such attempts, protecting the integrity of the data.
• Improved Privacy: Rotating UIDs minimize the potential for tracking user activity based on identifiers, contributing to a more privacy-focused environment.

Dynamic nature of Rotating UIDs

It's crucial to understand that a UID returned in an API response is likely already rotated by the time you used it to retrieve the entity data. This emphasizes the importance of refetching UIDs for nearly every request involving entities. Reusing outdated UIDs in subsequent requests will most likely result in errors due to identifier invalidation.

Be prepared to handle errors that might arise due to the use of outdated UIDs. Implement mechanisms to refetch the UID if an error occurs with a previously retrieved identifier.