• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      20 days ago

      “What are you trying to hide?”

      “Screw you, what are you trying to find out?”

      Mind your business

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      20 days ago

      Yup. Everyone should be using it, at least for social networking. It’s so easy to get IP addresses.

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        20 days ago

        Is it? I mean, on commercial social media. Or do you mean service providers see your IP? Of course they do. It’s not a matter of rig being “easy” it’s a matter of that’s how the internet works.

        The way you wrote it makes it sound like other users on commercial social media can easily get your IP.

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                20 days ago

                You can’t embed images in dms on alt accounts on commercial media. Maybe you can send them a link, but that’s different.

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                  Yawn. There are lots and lots of ways to expose a public facing IP address. My point is people should be using a VPN for this purpose. You’re on the iCloud relay. Good! No one considers that a “privacy” solution but realistically not everyone needs a logless VPN for random internet traffic.