i think since 'IP address' has become something of a baseline non-technical understanding of one of the critical components of networking, it becomes increasing

i think since 'IP address' has become something of a baseline non-technical understanding of one of the critical components of networking, it becomes increasingly difficult for non-netpeeps to fully grasp the many uses and non-uses of addressing. a proxy (or proxies) and how they can shield but one or many of ' your' IP addresses throughout an egress packet's many hops (and from who or what destination it or those addresses can be shielded) is a pretty advanced concept when you think about it. not to mention that, at this point, bare source IP address is a pretty dilute tracker compared to other current methods of identity profiling or traffic fingerprinting. nice succint correction on your part regardless.