Warning VOAT is logging your IP, source is a year old on github and ideas board is lying to you. (technology)

submitted ago by eronburr

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Only thing in common is your IP. No way for voat to know other than they log your IP.

Source code on github is over a year old, no mention of logging IP.

I submitted a request to log 3/4 of your IP to ensure trolls and shills are identified and the idea was knocked down for spying and free speech and not wanting to identify people to comments. It's all a lie.

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PresidentSkroob ago

Wow. Someone doesn't know how web servers, browsers or generically how the web works...

So - your browser makes a connection and says "I'm x, give me y". X=your IP address along with a few other things. The web server replies to said IP address (kind of like your home mailing address) and hands you info (web page packets). The web server usually logs the IP address in generic logs (usually for security and site analytics). The application maintains info on your browser, usually your IP and a few odds and ends and packages that info up in a cookie or session identifier.

Then you add in load balancers, CDN's (aka: Akamai, CloudFlare/Front, etc) and your IP is everywhere. Those little facebook/pinterest/twitter badges that are all over the place - those track you as well.

So, as nearly everyone else here is saying, this is normal. Stop arguing and calling everyone that doesn't agree with you a shill.

eronburr ago

Show me you've coded, done devops, or ran an ASN and we'll talk. Until then you're just fucking around and avoiding the details, likely a shill or idiot not knowing they're a free shill. Logging your IP isn't necessary and it's why it wasn't in the code from 2012-2017 and was only added when the code went dark.

Ignore the 'ideasforvoat' saying they won't log your IP for this and that, when it's to make you think they won't while they actually do.

I've run webhosts and isp's. When you prove you've done anything professionally I'll go tit for tat

PresidentSkroob ago

The IP restrictions were actually there when I joined up under an account a few years ago (I randomly del accounts) as the site use to prevent you from creating multiple accounts unless you were creative. I've already done more than prove I'm in the industry and know what I'm talking about.

Tell you what twinkle toes, you keep on telling yourself you're right and everyone else is wrong. Eventually we'll all believe and care, right?