that’s not the same, if i was commit a hate crime for example, on this profile, and the police investigated it, they can get my ip address from my client connection. however, someone doing the same and masking their ip address with a VPN to like, i dunno, sweeden but they live in the UK, is a big problem when VPN providers make bold claims of “protecting your identity”
Getting an IP isn’t even enough since the average user has a dynamic IP resolving to a box or center nearby but not yheir actual home address. They’d have to subpeona the ISP, which isn’t necessarily compelled to comply.
Hell, my IP doesnt even resolve to the same city I am in.
that’s not the same, if i was commit a hate crime for example, on this profile, and the police investigated it, they can get my ip address from my client connection. however, someone doing the same and masking their ip address with a VPN to like, i dunno, sweeden but they live in the UK, is a big problem when VPN providers make bold claims of “protecting your identity”
They have tons of legitimate uses
You’ll be happy to learn that most don’t protect anything.
Getting an IP isn’t even enough since the average user has a dynamic IP resolving to a box or center nearby but not yheir actual home address. They’d have to subpeona the ISP, which isn’t necessarily compelled to comply.
Hell, my IP doesnt even resolve to the same city I am in.
Here ips resolve to neighborhoods