“4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously.”
Correct me if I’m wrong but ISPs dynamically assign WAN IPs to the vast majority of their non-enterprise consumer base, right? If that’s the case, how would historical posts on 4chan have any relevant data to dox someone with? Wouldn’t the window of opportunity have passed for pretty much everything older than a few weeks?
Every ISP I’ve dealt with thus far has kept me on the same dynamic IP for years on end.
Only once did it actually change for me, and it was seemingly random so I assume they must have updated the lease block range.
It kind of makes sense because if some 3 letter agency asks for a historical lookup, they have less data they need to store compared to constantly rotating IPs to everyone.
This is highly dependent on where you are, and your ISP. I get new IPs basically daily. Even my ipv6 prefix changes daily for no reason other than to be annoying I guess. It’s infuriating, but somewhat convenient for privacy reasons (only).
Sir. This is a meme community. Please refrain from making sense.
4chan was built as a place where horrible people feel safe to be horrible and some shit about IP logging ought to be the last fucking thing mentioned about it. Fuck 4chan.
It wasnt.
Source: used to use it for years before it went down the toilet after 2016.
TBH, if you just use a decent VPN (thats truly private) then this doesn’t matter. Which is something you should be doing anyways.
4chan have range banned all VPNs for years. Even smaller ones like AirVPN. That’s when people should know it’s a honeypot.
they haven’t banned tor
Was years since the last time I was able to post on 4chan via TOR. I guess experience may vary.
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Funny you say that. I despise Nord VPN and consider them HIGHLY unethical. Also they aren’t truly private because they want a bunch of infromation when signing up.
Any VPN that I see a lot of ads for and other content for makes them come off as sketchy.
isn’t blocking the IP their first step in banning someone?
No its usually a last step.
it’s necessary to ban users who post illegal stuff, you need the ability to ban them and remove content that they created, even though every post is anonymous
Wait, what gets you banned on 4chan? With the amount of vile stuff originating from it I’m surprised they ban people.
4chan today is more moderated than Reddit in 2012.
