Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-46517988-20200813144014/@comment-9605025-20200813193042


 * 1) Some people want to edit without the need to give Fandom their contact info. So I think they would make the opposite argument that Fandom doesn't let anons do enough things on wikis.
 * 2) IP addresses change periodically so, over time, others can't use it to target you.
 * 3) *This is a bit of an over generalization so I don't entirely agree with it. However, it is one of the favorite points that users make about IP addresses. While it is true that IP addresses can change periodically, if you are using a home network and you stay with the same ISP, your IP address is either not going to change or change within a rather small range. In the latter case, you are bound to reuse an "old" IP address eventually. I think this over generalization is a result of many users using mobile data and/or VPNs to connect to the internet instead of a home network. In such cases, this statement is mostly true.
 * 4) Contrary to what angry people on the internet would have you believe, your IP address does not tell them where you live. In order to find your location based on your IP address, they would need to follow an entire chain of IP address range registrations all the way down to your ISP's records of which IP addresses they have given to which customers. As far as I am aware, there aren't any ISPs that make that information public so unless someone is going to hack your ISP's database, the most they can determine is your region and ISP.