IP Address Detection
Comments discuss how websites and apps detect users' IP addresses, often questioning the use of external services like ipify when the IP is already available from connections, along with privacy concerns about IP logging and leaks.
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Well, checking your own IP isn't exactly its primary use case
They don't take IP addresses into consideration?
That's just based off of IP...
Why ipify though? I connected to you. You already have my IP.
It's probably just using your IP address.
"No worries we hashed IP adresses"
I suspect HN is already checking IP.
An IP is pretty useless nowadays with so many sites behind cloudflare.
Why blur what's almost guaranteed to be RFC1918 private network info? My IP is 192.168.1.56, come and get me hackers.
Do they also have this for IP addresses?