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Hello there!

I'm suppose my questions regarding how long this particular website logs/stores IP addresses for can only be answered by one of the mods here, even if they can't do anything to edit/change those logs. I'm not too concerned about other sites at this moment, even if it is somewhat scary to know I'm not nearly as anonymous as I thought I was, since I'm specifically curious about this domain for the time being. I suppose we'll have to wait for a mod to read the thread and then answer that last remaining question. I think its best to PM me if you want to talk about this further, as to not digress the thread, otherwise any mods might not see/answer my above last remaining question.

Thanks for the information though, honestly, I appreciate it.
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In the past Posts would have their IPs stored in the header for us to see, we could then use an IP searcher to connect posts of multiple accounts.

There was however an issue when we started to get more spam so Mahz changed the way the IP lookup worked and used another method for searching posts. This however created an issue cause something in the code wasn't accounting for VPNs and it would just endlessly look up IPs from posts that were seemingly not connected... And so the site crashed and lagged a few times.

Since then the IP feature has been disabled so we don't have much visibility on some of those aspects, and with VPNs IP look ups are rather pointless. For instance some games in the past have banned cheaters based on their hardware not their IP, meaning that to evade it people would have to buy a new stick of ram or GPU with a different serial code.

There's actually a really good video sum up on IPs and VPNs here if you wanna understand your Internet privacy more and why VPNs can be a waste of time. 

[YouTube]https://youtu.be/9_b8Z2kAFyY[/YouTube]

If anything, the main take away from all this is that regardless to what site you're on the simple fact that your device is just connected means that you are always visible to others online.