Saidit.net - IRC chat re-enabled!

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[–]go1dfish 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Is visiting the site logged in with default settings enough to join IRC and reveal a user's ISP and general location?

If so I suggest that it is a bad thing for privacy and should be changed.

Edit: also if I'm automatically joining channels for subs I view that's even worse for privacy and should require informed consent.

Ideally someone's presense in a channel (and ISP) should only be revealed once they want to send a message if at all.

[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I agree. /u/d3rr is there anything more that can be done to hide the users ISPs?

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'll do some more digging but I can't think of much, aside from the old setup where everyone has the same ip address and our ban ability stinks. Maybe there's some kind of dirty hack I can do.

[–]go1dfish 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

aside from the old setup where everyone has the same ip address and our ban ability stinks. Maybe there's some kind of dirty hack I can do.

Could you make this read-only, and the default until someone tries to actively chat? That would mitigate the problem pretty elegantly I think.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That'd be cool. I can't think of an easy way to do it right now but I'll keep that in mind.