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Actually, I think my biggest issue with IRC is that at least in the past, it looked like it leaked my IP address to chats, which is a pretty big privacy issue (
by kaladin-jasnah 2y ago
Actually, I think my biggest issue with IRC is that at least in the past, it looked like it leaked my IP address to chats, which is a pretty big privacy issue (they can figure out what country/province/national subdivision I live in, and that makes me uncomfortable). While I'm sure Discord or Slack or Teams has my IP address at a company level, at least individuals in a Discord/whatever cannot by default get my IP address.
- dingnuts 2y agothis has been configurable in at least some IRCds for a very long time, to hide the host. It's been that way from personal experience for at least fifteen years, but it could be longer.
- kaladin-jasnah 2y agoWell, that's awkward. I should have learned that. Unfortunately, it also speaks to the unfriendliness of IRC that I've looked this up before and the answers are always "get a VPN."