How to hid your ip for free?
reddit / irc

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Individual-Abies-970 · 2023-10-31 12:41

I know that this has been asked before, but I cant get a consistent
answer.
Whats the prefferd way to hid your ip for free?

I know its not completly needed to hide your ip.

Thanks!

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scriminal · 2023-10-31 13:56

I have a feeling my standard irc answer to this question will get me
banned on Reddit.

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Individual-Abies-970 · 2023-10-31 14:01

Tottally not intriguing

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Chillycloth · 2023-10-31 14:04

3 words:

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dopaminenotyours · 2023-10-31 16:27

Can someone ELI5 why many on here think it's the end of the world for
your IP to be publicly visible? If I'm on a home network, behind a
router, and don't have any devices actively listening for incoming
connections on any dedicated ports, nor have any port forwarding set
up... in this day and age, what can someone realistically do with my
IP?


Aren't they just gonna try to port scan me, find that my router gives
them nothing to work with, and they move on?

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doping_deer · 2023-10-31 16:52

It's not the end of the world, but still leaks some information. For
example your ISP and approximate location. For ipv4, behind a router
nat is somewhat secure, but nowadays ISPs usually also hands out ipv6
which has no nat for that, if a service binds :: it is wide open on
the internet. Plus in terms of hardware, some routers have services
that runs on open port which is also a security risk.