I'm just wondering. Why is it so bad for other people to have your ip address? I went on a site recently and apparently it did a whois lookup on my ip address and it "identified" my location to popup an ad based on my location or something like that, but is that it or what?|||Depending on the person it may or may not be bad, but regardless if the person cares or not it can lead to a difficult situation.
Ex. certain sites that offer services that are money based like banks, an mlm business, gambling business, Ptc, etc. use this to identify cheating/theft when online transactions are made, or to identify if the person is who they say they are and they truly live near/where they state to avoid 1) confusions, loss of profit, business, etc. 2) Precautionary versus some sort of cheating or abuse of their own system.
Most free to join business's or services such as a blog, traffic exchange, or even anything as simple as youtube/Fb/twitter strive on the geographic ads or just ads in general. They use your ip or even pin point it even further by using your provided, and/or verified location to give geographical advertisements. Generally speaking they are worth more than a broad out advertisement; This money used by the banners or text ads keep said service free, can you imagine paying say 2-10$ to watch just one maybe even two youtube videos? Of course you can't because we are so used to those advertisements paying it for us.
Thats the business side of the arguement the other major reason is anyone with your ip can get in trouble for you instead of under their own name.
Put it this way Child porno and or human traffiking has become a huge thing world wide and now especially in the Us and Central America (China too but that is besides the point) so I will use that as an example and also to raise awareness. The latter moreover but not the point, if a person who is affiliated in any way with those types of people used your ip* or internet connection or anything of the sort that can leave a trail or any trace back to you and keep the heat off themselves that will be just one more problem for you and one less for them. Believe it or not ip stealing and the sort is alot more common than you think.
To put it in a lower light of things if lets say you use mega video to watch those 75 minutes free and someone else has your ip that means that you will watch whatever exposure said person didn't use and still you would have to wait the half hour just to potentially share those 75 minutes with said person again. Same for File sharing hosts like mega upload, Django, etc. a person with your ip can just use his or her free downloads and avoid waiting the time limit and then use yours too, now lets say you didn't have a paid account now you have to wait for a service you didn't use.
*In various countries especially ones with lower internet service provider chains they use proxies/protocals to give several people the same ip as the one you have. Generally speaking this is no problem because of the fact that every computer has its own identification but it can cause difficulties with lower end services like online businesses that are a little under 5 years online.|||Today is everything about privacy. You do not want that someone know your phone number. In similar way you do not want that someone have IP address from your computer. It is virtually same as phone number.
What someone can discover from IP address can be seen on:
http://www.ipaddresslocation.org
http://www.find-ip-address.org
http://www.ip-address.org
Hope this helps!|||They DON"T have your IP address, What happens when you go on any web server it saves your Internet service providers IP address, from that they can tell what country and what area your in, any adds for companies in your area will pop up.
Advice clear all your web history and cookies, Use Firefox web browser, and set the security up, tick mark 'Not to follow, Private browsing, delete cookies and histrory on closing firefox,
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