Comment on Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.

• Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  True, but the downside of cloudflare is that they are a reverse proxy and can see all your https traffic unencrypted.

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  • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, but if you host a public blog it might be a better option, the content is public anyway and you won’t get doxed if you publish something controversial.

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• Aux@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your IP changes all the time, it doesn’t matter. The best someone can deduct from your IP is the country.

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  • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Absolutely not, my IP has remained the same since I moved in, and a geoip lookup results in a coordinate less than a kilometer away.

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    • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess you live in a country with loads of spare IP addresses. Here in the UK they change every few days and IPs get rotated between all ISPs, so you can’t even deduct which ISP I’m using. And sometimes my IP is not even a mainland UK IP, but some weird shit from across the world, because Empire, lol.

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    • Auli@twit.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @qaz @Aux now you’ve just exposed where you live not your ipaddress. Nobody would have thought it was that close now they do.

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    • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When looking up my static ip, the location I get is the one of my ISP, not my address. Do you happen to live nearby some central infrastructure of your ISP? (If it seems otherwise, I’m not trying to debunk what you said - I’m just asking curious questions!)

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      • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, it seems to be a hit or a miss. I don’t think I live near any central infrastructure or ISP, especially not this specific part of the city.

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• Auli@twit.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @qaz @Darkassassin07 what are you even saying? Ip address doesn’t expose where you live. And better get off the internet right now if your concern is exposing your ip cause it was never secret to begin with.
  Tunnels stop you from opening a port so nothing is exposed openly to the internet but it does not keep your ip private.

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  • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tunnels stop you from opening a port so nothing is exposed openly to the internet but it does not keep your ip private.

    This is incorrect, CF tunnels (and services like it e.g. ngrok) rely on proxy servers that forward traffic based on HTTP host headers. The IP of the site will therefore have the IP of the company’s proxy server instead of your own.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you imagine that geoblocking content works if IP addresses don’t expose where you live?

    And better get off the internet right now if your concern is exposing your ip cause it was never secret to begin with.

    qaz could be using any of dozens of different methods to obfuscate their IP from the wider internet to write their comment, Tor or a VPN to name just a couple.

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