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Edit: kbutler explains the privacy issue below. Original question: Wouldn’t you already have the IP of someone visiting your website? The video is embedded on
by MichaelApproved 6y ago
Edit: kbutler explains the privacy issue below.
Original question:
Wouldn’t you already have the IP of someone visiting your website?
The video is embedded on your own site, so you have all the info you need just from a regular page visit.
- Sieglend 6y agoYou would probably want to limit the number of people who can see it. It may be of interest to some groups to set-up peer servers to gain partial control and knowledge of the users and system
- kbutler 6y agoClient-server apps like YouTube reveal your IP to the server (Google). Peer-to-peer apps reveal your IP to any other peer in the network (anyone seeding, anyone else downloading, and anyone who wants to monitor by pretending to be a downloader).