IP protection is extremely important in today's day and age. Once someone gets your IP, they can do a lot of damage to you, your computer, or your reputation. In this post, I am going to go over how people can get your IP, how you can protect yourself, what your IP address is/means, what are VPN’s, and what can you do if someone has your IP address What is an IP address? An IP Address is a unique string of numbers separated by periods that identifies each computer using the Internet Protocol to communicate over a network. Or, in less technical terms, it is a bunch of numbers that separate your computers from the millions of others in the world. How can people grab your IP address? There are multiple ways that people can grab IP’s from other people. Here, I will list a couple of different ways that people can grab IP address and what you can do to protect yourself from it · Joining a shady Minecraft server When you join a Minecraft server, you join with your IP Address which connects you to the server. With essentials or just checking console, the owner of the server could do /whois (using essentials) or other means if essentials is not on the server. Big servers such as Minetime do not share player information and only few people have access to that kind of information making it very difficult for it to be abused. Overall, don’t join shady servers unless you have VPN’s. We will get into VPN’s later · Clicking on sketchy links Websites such as grabify can be used to grab your IP. These websites can be masked using an addfly link or such so be very careful clicking links to websites you do not trust. Especially if you receive them from other players because online, you will never know anyone’s true intention. · Using Skype Skype is a safety hazard. There are too many ways for people to IP grab using skype. Players who still have the old skype will be able to grab player IP’s if you are in a call with them and you will never know if they have the ability to grab it or not so in general, I would advise do not use skype at all unless it is used with friends that you know in real life. Here on Minetime, we offer a public discord server where you can talk to your friends about anything. You can always make your own discord server and discord is safer because discord does not use your IP address or record it in any way. So, if someone wants to call you, discord is the safer bet. Link for the Minetime discord can be found here https://discord.gg/Xbxvfzk What is a VPN? A VPN or Virtual Private Network is a way to protect your IP address from other people who will try to grab it because it will mask your actual ip keeping your safe from IP-grabbers. However, this will slow down your connection just a bit and some are not free. The one that I use is called pureVPN which is payed for, but there are also some free options, you will just have to search them up. If you have any questions or anything to add, please leave a comment.
Thanks you for this! I already knew this stuff, but I think it is very helpful for the people who didn't!
The best free VPN is Winscribe. you get 10gb free a month when you signup with your email. which you online need your VPN when u join other servers or click links. also, don't use skype use discord. I never used skype but I heard there are like special VPNs for skype. im not to sure about skype
Mostly common sense here but thanks PK Just call your ISP and request they change your IP and give them a reason why. It might cost a small fee though.
Thank you for creating this thread, it is good to know that there will be a few more people being safe on the internet. I already knew most of this stuff, but thanks for reminding me!
The only concern is the Skype thing, but they have to know my Skype first in order to abuse that and I make sure to never give out my Skype to strangers, so... Make you sure can fully trust someone before you give them other ways to contact you. They could end up using that against you.
Im happy to click on any links and happy to use skype, if you want to add me on skype hmu @ live:mitchell.t