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		Reason077 on July 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent Another interesting one is to hit the "My Contributions" button on Wikipedia when you're not logged in. This will show you anonymous edits that have come from your IP address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyContributions There are a lot of weird people who share my IP address editing a lot of weird stuff!

easterncalculus on July 13, 2020 | [–]

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing this, I also got some interesting responses from a VPN.

cooper12 on July 13, 2020 | | [–]

Also supports subnet notation, so you could add /24 to the end of the URL for example.

PopeRigby on July 13, 2020 | [–]

Interesting. If I use ProtonVPN, one of the Australian IPs is blocked globally.

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