Community servers are IP grabbers

[Marmarmar34]

If you join a community server, the server owner gets to see/store your IP.


technically, every single single service you connect to "grabs" your IP.

[imw]

Casual servers are good for the casual internet user. Community servers do introduce the issue of IP anonymity no longer being guaranteed.

[Luigi]

This thread is an ip grabber

[CV70]

Thank you captain obvious

[k]

That is why I always play on those using throwaway account

[Marmarmar34]

Originally posted by k:

That is why I always play on those using throwaway account

You heard it here first folks. Using alt accounts changes your IP 🥴

[What?]

marmar is a bot trying to get people to play servers with pajeet ad bots

[Marmarmar34]

Originally posted by What?:

marmar is a bot trying to get people to play servers with pajeet ad bots

Clearly, that's why my profile is set to private so you can't tell that I made this account a week ago.

[LQIM]

Originally posted by t.tv\icemanwest:

Casual servers are good for the casual internet user. Community servers do introduce the issue of IP anonymity no longer being guaranteed.

-enablefakeip in start options if you're really that paranoid

[smat3us]

LUL, ip grabbing when your ipv4 adress is 99.99% likely DoubleNAT-et to represent an entire blocks worth of households.
Now if this where true for ipv6, then it might be an actual issue, but fret not, TF2s netcode is too old to use the new protocol.

[/I\]

Originally posted by Marmarmar34:

If you join a community server, the server owner gets to see/store your IP.


technically, every single single service you connect to "grabs" your IP.

Not much harm if using vpn tho

[Badstormer]

There aren't many ways to establish a connection to a server without an IP address for the server to send data to, so I'm not sure what the issue is here. There isn't much harm anyone can realistically do with one's IP address that can't be stopped by a call to their ISP, and server owners are incentivized not to do anything malicious given you'd probably stop visiting them if they did try anything.

[libadwaita (she/her)]

Your IP address is not (and never was) private information, pretty much every site you use is an IP grabber by your definition.

[Bob]

Originally posted by libadwaita (she/her):

Your IP address is not (and never was) private information, pretty much every site you use is an IP grabber by your definition.

But I'd prefer to sleep with without the fact that someone from TF2 community can have my IP. Especially #FIXTF2 maniacs.

[libadwaita (she/her)]

Originally posted by Atomic Bomb:

Originally posted by libadwaita (she/her):

Your IP address is not (and never was) private information, pretty much every site you use is an IP grabber by your definition.

But I'd prefer to sleep with without the fact that someone from TF2 community can have my IP. Especially #FIXTF2 maniacs.

Many (if not most) ISPs nowadays will have the same public-facing IP address assigned to multiple households (mainly due to technical limitations with IPv4) so chances are whatever IP address they have for you, you share with many others.

[Bob]

Originally posted by libadwaita (she/her):

Originally posted by Atomic Bomb:

But I'd prefer to sleep with without the fact that someone from TF2 community can have my IP. Especially #FIXTF2 maniacs.

Many (if not most) ISPs nowadays will have the same public-facing IP address assigned to multiple households (mainly due to technical limitations with IPv4) so chances are whatever IP address they have for you, you share with many others.

Still too much information.