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In most cases "leaking your IP" isn't considered a problem. I leak my IP to hundreds of websites a day. Of course there are concerns, especially on mobile wher
by kevincox 5y ago
In most cases "leaking your IP" isn't considered a problem. I leak my IP to hundreds of websites a day.
Of course there are concerns, especially on mobile where you may be able to do some location tracking.
Really the biggest place where IP leaking is a problem is gaming communities where people like to hammer IP addresses yo DoS people.
- fock 5y agoWell, you can basically do user-tracking on people viewing a specific internal chatroom that way. Which is definitely different to more or less consciously getting abused in the public net every minute. Also funny: if people bookmark your website in iOS safari and you don't have a favicon, safari will regularly visit your page :). Found out that my father had bookmarked my empty blog that way, because suddenly an IP from his workplace showed up in the log... Yes, in the face of the other abuse this is minor, but I think it illustrates the total disregard for privacy nicely.