ryujin470@fedia.io to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 21 hours agoWhat are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?ryujin470@fedia.io to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 21 hours agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-text
They only expose approximate, not precise, locations, so they shouldn’t be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?
minus-squareBurgerBaron@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 hours agoExample: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ Mine is blank, not even using VPN (don’t need to where I live) just NextDNS and required encrypt/anon mode enabled for torrents. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/CA/daily https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/US/daily
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 hours agoDoesn’t work for starlink just checked
minus-squareJimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·17 hours agoThere’s stuff on there I didn’t download… Hundreds of gigs. Eek.
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 hours agoprobably because of CGNAT or torrent trackers reporting fake stuff. Usually when the first seen and last seen equals it’s the latter, otherwise it’s the former. It’s pretty accurate for me…
minus-squareJiminaMann@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 hours agoCG NAT to be precise, unless it’s someone else in his house
Example: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
Mine is blank, not even using VPN (don’t need to where I live) just NextDNS and required encrypt/anon mode enabled for torrents.
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/CA/daily
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/US/daily
Doesn’t work for starlink just checked
There’s stuff on there I didn’t download… Hundreds of gigs. Eek.
probably because of CGNAT or torrent trackers reporting fake stuff. Usually when the first seen and last seen equals it’s the latter, otherwise it’s the former. It’s pretty accurate for me…
Because of NATting
CG NAT to be precise, unless it’s someone else in his house