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 No.952895>>952966 >>953307 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

K, so I honestly feel like the most faggoty OP in the entire world asking this question but it's seriously hard finding any simple explanations of this.

So if your IP address changes constantly whenever you connect to the internet (your IP address at your house will not be the same as your ip in a coffee shop) then how is it used to track you when it never remains unique?

 No.952897>>953010

Same subnet. ISP logs on who and when was assigned certain address. it's not only IP addresses, usually browser fingerprints if we're talking about web.


 No.952966>>953010

>>952895 (OP)

IPs are not randomly assigned even if you have a dynamic one. ISPs have ranges of IPs which they further divide based on customer location.

Also ISPs log everything so they always know which IP you had at what time and what you were doing with it.


 No.953010>>953014

>>952897

>>952966

read OP

>your IP address at your house will not be the same as your ip in a coffee shop

he's including public wi-fi

No OP, unless you show clear internet habits (same browser, same websites, same OS, same monitor size, etc) you can separate the two. I suggest you watch youtube at home and use the coffee shop for watching porn. Just cut a hole in the right pocket of your jeans and no one will notice a thing. Have fun being anon!


 No.953014>>953017

>>953010

But all the normalfags watch porn at home and probably work too so wouldn't you stick out if you never watched at porn at home?


 No.953017

>>953014

You're really overthinking this, anon.


 No.953027

They also aren't unique as some ISPs give a single address to numerous customers at once. For this reason big tech companies don't track you specifically by ip address. It's useless other than for some general statistics once you reach a certain size.


 No.953029>>953044

i just open New Private Window and do some stuff there with Opera

it has built in free VPN


 No.953031>>953044

oh and since Opera probably picks one VPN from among many free ones, and its often different one randomness adds an extra layer of security


 No.953042

>ISPs give a single address to numerous customers at once

>at once

wut?


 No.953044>>953078

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>>953029

>>953031

>opera

>a chinese owned closed source browser with a built-in VPN provided by an israeli company

oh yeah this sounds REALLY secure


 No.953050>>953059 >>953063

Even bigger faggot than the op incoming here

I'm usually just a lurker who keeps my faggot mouth shut but I need to vent about the the god damned fucking phone users out there. I want to just smack the phone out of the hands of the next 200 people I see and stomp on them. There are exactly 2 things phones are good for: 1. Making a google search when away from wifi and making calls, and those are not even a thing universal to these tiny little shit bricks, you have to buy data n shit seperately the thing by itself to me is fucking worthless since if I was around wifi I'd just use a fucking laptop FUUUUUUCK


 No.953059

>>953050

smartphones are a plague


 No.953063

>>953050

The behavior of phone users in a vacuum shits up any place they go online which isn't surprising since phone posters A: Have to deal with a shitty crammed user interface that makes them type at 5 characters per hour constantly fucking up every word they type after they're done typing it and isn't exactly a help when trying to do other activities like editing. They can't contribute jack shit even if they wanted to. B: The type of person okay with using this fucking bullshit is going to put less than a braincell of thought into every thing they do and their behavior by itself even on desktop would shit up everything they go to


 No.953078>>953412

>>953044

between them than the ISP who will screw you and hand you over to the authorities at first chance


 No.953079>>953512

oh and hongkong investors arent the same as chinese gov


 No.953080

*better


 No.953307

>>952895 (OP)

>log in to google

>google now has your identify and your IP

>there are google ads and google analytics everywhere, google knows everywhere you go

Is one way, that doesn't involve your ISP.

<logging in lel

<not blocking ads lel

You get the point.


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 No.953512

>>953079

>China has no control at all over Hong Kong at all

你好!




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