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Termingamer2-JD
Posted on 08-29-16 10:32 AM (rev. 2 of 08-29-16 10:34 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 163949


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Why do IPs of guests and bots appear to normal members?
It could actually pose a small privacy risk to some people.

I also like to look at online.php to see where people are browsing on the forums and what threads are popular with guests and new users. I'm obsessed with search engine rankings and such.

Just a quick note - is the uploader definitely checked for malware or sort? My phone detects this board and blocks it (am on Virgin Media) so I have to use an Italian webproxy to get around it. I could use alternative DNS, though.

Preferably would like to know blackhole89's and other people's opinions on this from the staff team. I assume they do browse the board but have little to say here.

(I also know no other forum software that exposes any IPs to non-staff.)

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Posted on 09-25-16 02:03 PM Link | Quote | ID: 164356


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Last view: 2497 days 		I complately agree.

Makes no sense having normal users spying on other people's business

Termingamer2-JD
Posted on 09-25-16 02:06 PM Link | Quote | ID: 164357


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Posted by SledgeBrother1
I complately agree.

Makes no sense having normal users spying on other people's business

Or even other guests for that matter.

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blackhole89
Posted on 09-26-16 03:51 AM Link | Quote | ID: 164375


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Posted by Termingamer2-JD
Why do IPs of guests and bots appear to normal members?
It could actually pose a small privacy risk to some people.

I imagine the rationale of whoever made the decision back in the day was along the lines of "see how many different places we have people browsing from"; of course, this has largely lost meaning since our geolocation database is extremely out of date. That being said, I'm not sure it's actually that major a privacy risk. It's not like you can gleam information beyond "this IP exists and visited that page"; Google, Facebook and co. get that data every time you visit something with a like button, Google ads or their hotlinkable web fonts.

Just a quick note - is the uploader definitely checked for malware or sort? My phone detects this board and blocks it (am on Virgin Media) so I have to use an Italian webproxy to get around it. I could use alternative DNS, though.

No, it's not; I suppose I would be happy to enable any layer of checking that can be run from the command line on a unixoid system without much effort. I wouldn't recommend downloading and executing binaries from it, just as I wouldn't with any other web source. Blocking it for that is silly for anyone but people who actually do just run random stuff off the internet; can't you contact your provider and have them disable whatever layer of idiot protection they think you need? (There's also a certain chance that they blocked it simply because of the presence of offending keyboards to do with ROMs and hacking. Do standard ROM download sites work on your phone?)

(I also know no other forum software that exposes any IPs to non-staff.)

I believe there were some flavours of imageboards out there that did...

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Termingamer2-JD
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"That being said, I'm not sure it's actually that major a privacy risk"
Some people might feel a little unsafe having their IPs revealed to any plain person, I know of someone who's pretty conscious about their online privacy (in fact 2 or 3 people).

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Posted by Termingamer2-JD
Some people might feel a little unsafe having their IPs revealed to any plain person, I know of someone who's pretty conscious about their online privacy (in fact 2 or 3 people).
Explain why having (only) your IP revealed is a privacy risk. If it's just something you vaguely feel people shouldn't know, that's nothing more than cargo cult security...

(By the way, I just remembered: by far the largest example is how Wikipedia publicly identifies all anonymous edits by IP.)

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Oh
Well you can close this topic then I guess, your points are more valid lol.

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NightYoshi370
Posted on 02-12-18 02:36 AM (rev. 3 of 02-12-18 02:42 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 166204


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Posted by blackhole89

(By the way, I just remembered: by far the largest example is how Wikipedia publicly identifies all anonymous edits by IP.)
keyword: anonymous.

Besides, why should other people have your IP address? Its like if you posted your IRL address and people are in your area...

Oh well, since admins here don't care, I'll just view the board under a proxy

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