Do most websites log or know the user’s IP address? Is the public IP address required to visit any website and therefore it’s “public” online?
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You have to have a public IP to go on a public website. It is your address so the network knows where to send the data.
It’s similar to mail, if you sent someone a letter that said “print out a copy of your menu and send it to me”. It’s absolutely impossible to send it to you without a return address. But that address doesn’t necessarily need to be point to you exactly, it could point to a business that knows where you are with you name and in this way everyone at the business shares that address (and businesses will frequently use a NAT which has the same effect,everyone shares the public IP). Also, mail can have forwarding services, where you send it to an address, but actually, you’re not there at all, instead someone know you and will slap a new address on it after they get it. Proxies and VPNs can work like that, to hide your real public address.
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