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mixedbit • 01/22/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

If I use Signal or Discord to send someone a link to anything hosted on a server controlled by me, provided that the user opens the link, I will get an exact IP address of the user. IP address is much more useful in de-anonymizing the user than the nearest CloudFlare datacenter location.


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krupan • 01/22/2025

That's why this is interesting, it doesn't even require someone to open a link