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I feel this is an appropriate place for a shameless plug about my website, http://ipkitten.com http://ipkitten.com. It offers valuable IPv4 information while al

I feel this is an appropriate place for a shameless plug about my website, http://ipkitten.com http://ipkitten.com. It offers valuable IPv4 information while also offering a kitten GIF. No ads, no tracking; just cats and IP addresses. Zero lines of Javascript.

benatkin 7y ago
That's good. I've been using jsonip but I think I'll switch to yours, because it's still nice and minimal! It's good to have the geoip even though it's inaccurate. Right now geoip thinks I'm in Ft Lauderdale when I'm actually in Miami.
andrenotgiant 7y ago
that is an oddly appropriate shameless plug.
Svip 7y ago
It doesn't handle non-US countries particularly well. It found my city, and the post code is close by (2000), but then the query in the Google Maps URL is just "2000". How will that get me here? Maybe add the country code to the Google Maps URL, e.g. "<country code> <post code>"? Otherwise, appropriate shameless plug. I only mention the above, because I could see myself making use of it.
- lemcoe9 7y ago
  Please refresh and see what happens.
  - Svip 7y ago
    Thanks for the quick change. That's definitely better. Unfortunately, most European countries aren't federal states, and so dividing them by "state" (more like region, county, department or province) makes little sense. Although, that being said, I am confident that Google would find "2000 Capital Region" correctly, no matter where I search from. (Can't really test it, since Google is clever enough to base the post code on where I'm searching from.)
    - lemcoe9 7y ago
      I am able to be neither a beggar nor a chooser with the API that I am leveraging to geo-code the IP addresses, because I am not paying for it! Either way, thank you for letting me know about non-US use-cases.
JOnAgain 7y ago
Did we break it?
- lemcoe9 7y ago
  Yes, thank you. EDIT: We are back.
Hongwei 7y ago
It seems to have been hugged to death (at least for me in Canada)
est31 7y ago
> no tracking I wouldn't say there is no tracking at all. There might be no tracking by you and there certainly is no Javascript tracking applied, both of which is better than >90% websites out there, but you use two external resources, first bootstrapcdn for css and second giphy for the kitten gif. Those web sites get data for each request, including ip address, user agent and (possibly / if the browser supports it) cookie information. giphy is a startup that is monetized via ads while bootstrapcdn's privacy policy explicitly states that it uses the ip address and user agent information for targeted advertisement [1]. As you are using a deeplink, you might avoid giphy's tracking which might only be js based, but one can never know. bootstrapcdn was built to be used as a CDN so they will definitely use the data that servers get for tracking. So don't visit this website too often unless you want to see cat food ads :). Or IDK. I don't think there is a big benefit from using a CDN for the CSS file, but self hosting the kitten picture means of course a big increase of traffic and idk how it looks like from a license point of view. I have no idea what a privacy friendly kitten picture hosting service would be. [1]: https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/privacy-policy/ https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/privacy-policy/
- kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
  Decentraleyes neuters CDN tracking.
deleted 7y ago
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mholt 7y ago
This server could not prove that it is ipkitten.com; its security certificate is from cambridgecamps.paytrax.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. Sad face :(
- lemcoe9 7y ago
  The only goal of the website is to deliver kitten GIFs and IPv4 addresses. It does not send an SSL certificate, pursuant to that goal.
  - Khol 7y ago
    But it does send a certificate if you ask for it - cambridgecamps.paytrax.com https://ipkitten.com/ https://ipkitten.com/
tempguy9999 7y ago
I can see my inter-net number at the top and it knows I have firefox. How is that not tracking. :( (\s. Just in case)
maxheadroom 7y ago
Gives Firefox (via HTTPS Everywhere) a sad face. >Felkod: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN >cambridgecamps.paytrax.com
egeozcan 7y ago
It gave me the face melt scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, definitely not a kitten [maybe NSFW and could be disturbing or funny depending on your personality]: https://i.imgur.com/nu5jkyo.png https://i.imgur.com/nu5jkyo.png https://giphy.com/gifs/room-mega-ilovefuzzcom-oYbahUPK6yWfC https://giphy.com/gifs/room-mega-ilovefuzzcom-oYbahUPK6yWfC
mobilemidget 7y ago
Where is the valuable ipv4 information? I knew my IP address and user agent already.

benatkin 7y ago

That's good. I've been using jsonip but I think I'll switch to yours, because it's still nice and minimal! It's good to have the geoip even though it's inaccurate. Right now geoip thinks I'm in Ft Lauderdale when I'm actually in Miami.

andrenotgiant 7y ago

that is an oddly appropriate shameless plug.

Svip 7y ago

It doesn't handle non-US countries particularly well. It found my city, and the post code is close by (2000), but then the query in the Google Maps URL is just "2000". How will that get me here? Maybe add the country code to the Google Maps URL, e.g. "<country code> <post code>"? Otherwise, appropriate shameless plug. I only mention the above, because I could see myself making use of it.

lemcoe9 7y ago
Please refresh and see what happens.
- Svip 7y ago
  Thanks for the quick change. That's definitely better. Unfortunately, most European countries aren't federal states, and so dividing them by "state" (more like region, county, department or province) makes little sense. Although, that being said, I am confident that Google would find "2000 Capital Region" correctly, no matter where I search from. (Can't really test it, since Google is clever enough to base the post code on where I'm searching from.)
  - lemcoe9 7y ago
    I am able to be neither a beggar nor a chooser with the API that I am leveraging to geo-code the IP addresses, because I am not paying for it! Either way, thank you for letting me know about non-US use-cases.

JOnAgain 7y ago

Did we break it?

lemcoe9 7y ago
Yes, thank you. EDIT: We are back.

Hongwei 7y ago

It seems to have been hugged to death (at least for me in Canada)

est31 7y ago

> no tracking I wouldn't say there is no tracking at all. There might be no tracking by you and there certainly is no Javascript tracking applied, both of which is better than >90% websites out there, but you use two external resources, first bootstrapcdn for css and second giphy for the kitten gif. Those web sites get data for each request, including ip address, user agent and (possibly / if the browser supports it) cookie information. giphy is a startup that is monetized via ads while bootstrapcdn's privacy policy explicitly states that it uses the ip address and user agent information for targeted advertisement [1]. As you are using a deeplink, you might avoid giphy's tracking which might only be js based, but one can never know. bootstrapcdn was built to be used as a CDN so they will definitely use the data that servers get for tracking. So don't visit this website too often unless you want to see cat food ads :). Or IDK. I don't think there is a big benefit from using a CDN for the CSS file, but self hosting the kitten picture means of course a big increase of traffic and idk how it looks like from a license point of view. I have no idea what a privacy friendly kitten picture hosting service would be. [1]: https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/privacy-policy/ https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/privacy-policy/

kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
Decentraleyes neuters CDN tracking.

deleted 7y ago

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mholt 7y ago

This server could not prove that it is ipkitten.com; its security certificate is from cambridgecamps.paytrax.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. Sad face :(

lemcoe9 7y ago
The only goal of the website is to deliver kitten GIFs and IPv4 addresses. It does not send an SSL certificate, pursuant to that goal.
- Khol 7y ago
  But it does send a certificate if you ask for it - cambridgecamps.paytrax.com https://ipkitten.com/ https://ipkitten.com/

tempguy9999 7y ago

I can see my inter-net number at the top and it knows I have firefox. How is that not tracking. :( (\s. Just in case)

maxheadroom 7y ago

Gives Firefox (via HTTPS Everywhere) a sad face. >Felkod: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN >cambridgecamps.paytrax.com

egeozcan 7y ago

It gave me the face melt scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, definitely not a kitten [maybe NSFW and could be disturbing or funny depending on your personality]: https://i.imgur.com/nu5jkyo.png https://i.imgur.com/nu5jkyo.png https://giphy.com/gifs/room-mega-ilovefuzzcom-oYbahUPK6yWfC https://giphy.com/gifs/room-mega-ilovefuzzcom-oYbahUPK6yWfC

mobilemidget 7y ago

Where is the valuable ipv4 information? I knew my IP address and user agent already.