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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>Do most websites log or know the user’s IP address?
Yes. Most will log, all will know (unless you’re using some sort of masking service). It’s the return address of your communication. If they didn’t know your IP address, when you tried to load a webpage, you wouldn’t see anything, because it would be a 1-way communication of you asking for the website, and the website going “Well IDK who this is that asked for it, so I don’t know who to send the webpage info to.”
Think like when you send a letter in the mail. You put it in an envelope, on the internet, that’s called a packet, and just like the To: address and return address on the envelope, the packet contains the IP that you’re sending a request to, and your return IP.
>Is the public IP address required to visit any websit and therefore it’s “public” online?
See above, I suppose that should clear it up.
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