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Can you outline advantages that this has over www.uuidgenerator.net (which supports multiple types of UUIDs, not only V4)?

(www.uuidgenerator.net can be accessed through its website or through the https://www.uuidgenerator.net/api API, which is also available on the https://graphql.stepzen.com service.)

I decided to build this the other day when I tried to use www.uuidgenerator.net, but it was down.

A benefit of this service is that it is deployed as a Cloudflare Worker, which is an edge computing platform so your requests are handled by the closest location to you.

It's just too tempting to be mischievous with a service like that and give the same UUIDs to different people.
`const id = crypto.randomUUID()`

why would I not just do this?