It garbles advertisers’ data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can’t work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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      You can fake your IP. There isnt really any authentication at the IP level. Just make a packet and overwite the IP field.

      Edit: I was corrected. The TCP handshake requires you to have a valid IP you can respond from. So even though you can fake your IP, you can’t use that to talk to most websites.

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      Nothing is random

      In bot cases like this you would have a proxy list that it “randomly” picks from

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        No, he means that’s literally not how IP addresses work. It’s not about “nothing being random.”

        You don’t just “pick an IP address” from a list lmao and send it as though it’s not your actual IP. You would need to literally connect to a proxy and send the request through that proxy in order for ads to see an IP different than you own.

        My god, are you people trolls or just the next generation taking hold? The dumbing down of Western society is in full force.

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          You would need to literally connect to a proxy and send the request through that proxy in order for ads to see an IP different than you own.

          Yes that is what was proposed, you’re the only one who seems unclear on it

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      What if we use a Visual Basic UI to hack the IP address by netmask?