Nostr Web Client

Seeing lots of FUD criticizing NOSTR about revealing your IP address (mostly on the bird app).

I'm not a privacy expert so want to make sure I understand the tradeoffs correctly to respond.

Clients or relays could capture / store your IP address, but no more than other website or app you would use.. you also have the option of running clients locally such that the the client couldn't capture this information.

A relay capturing / tracking your I.P. address is a risk, but relays can choose to not store this data and you can choose which relays you want to use. If you use a VPN you aren't revealing your IP address.

Regular users of NOSTR have no more ability to capture your IP here than on any other app.

#[0] .. does this sound accurate?

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radixrat 2y ago

Regular users can host their own images and capture your IP so you need to run a VPN generally, people on Twitter are giving up truck loads of data so I don’t think I’d be throwing bricks from that glass house

Semi-Normal 2y ago

Oh good point... if I make a post with a self hosted image, I can see the pings from everyone who views the image then? Even if they don't interact with the message.

And ya.. the most obviously hilarious part is twitter users suddenly worried someone might see their IP.

radixrat 2y ago

Some clients let you disable remote images, I run a custom build to block outside of my friend circle, but still run under VPN anyways

Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire 2y ago

Yeah the sudden awareness is very much grasping for straws. They are actually just sheep on the twitter system and want everything done for them.

You may as well learn scoveign computing, open source and GNU Linux at this point. Expand your mind and learn something worth while - be more than just an end user. (Now this isn't possible for all but for those who complain this much they ought to do so)

Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire 2y ago

I would recommend somehow using Nostr over i2p then if you were that concerned.

VPNs are quite a bad idea, if yoy believe that they are in bed with the government of their self interests.

Semi-Normal 2y ago

What is i2p?

Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire 2y ago

Invisible Internet Project - check it out here:

https://geti2p.net/en/

It takes some learning yo setup but a nostr relay should be possible - atleast I think (bar any weird certificate issues)

I highly recommend you use i2pd and not the Java i2p