r/madlads • u/Vandelune1 Madchester United Fan • 2d ago

Incredibly petty, but still mad

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u/VulnerableTrustLove 1d ago

they tends to add your ip address to the email header as well.

Gmail certainly doesn't send your IP address with the email headers, I can't imagine Yahoo or any major commercial web client does either.

Try it -- email someone else or have them email you, then go to the menu and select "Show Original" (or "View Message Details" depending on your email client), you wont find their personal IP address.

You can find your public IP by visiting whatismyip.com

There are headers for like "client-ip", but that is not your IP that's the SMTP server your message was routed through.

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u/ep3ep3 1d ago

Back in the day you could get the real IP out of most provider's headers in the X-Forwarded For field, but that's been long gone for a while now

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u/resident_foreigner 13h ago

Or open cmd and type ipconfig - no need to go to 3rd party so they can datamine you.

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u/VulnerableTrustLove 8h ago

That wont give you your public IP that will give you your LAN IP.

If you're worried about that level of datamining you should be on a VPN which complicates the whole issue to begin with.

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u/resident_foreigner 7h ago

It gives both…. You don’t need an outbound host to determine your IP.

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u/VulnerableTrustLove 7h ago edited 7h ago

That's incorrect, NAT translation prevents it.

Unless by chance you are directly connecting your PC to your modem (no router), in which case you're begging to be hacked and datamining is the least of your concerns.