Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-40174391-20191209232757/@comment-40174391-20191210011938

Andrewds1021 wrote: reply to #6 What are you talking about? Regardless, the block log would still have a record of the IP. When a user with the  permission (admin and higher) blocks a user, they are given the option to also block the IP for a certain amount of time. The username and the IP are separate entries in the block log and appear as such. Obviously, if the user is blocking an IP, the IP would show in the log.

PigLoverGoComics, as the other users have said (and as you have stated yourself), the IPs are only shown for anon users. As long as you remain logged in, your IP will not be publicly visible. Only those with the  permission (a few global user groups and an extremely few local admins) are able to see the IPs of a registered account.

Even if that were not the case, the chances of someone being able to track your location via your IP is rather small. In order to do that, they would need to know to whom the IP has been assigned. Typically, public information on IP assignment goes no further than your ISP. So chances are they wouldn't be able to get anything really useful from it. Furthermore, your IP can change even if you are using the same device on the same network. For sure, it will change if you are accessing sites using different networks. For example, if you access the site simultaneously on a PC and a smartphone, the IPs will be different. This would be especially true if the smartphone is using mobile data as opposed to wi-fi.

Not to be mean, but what FANDOM does with your IP is probably the least of your worries. I am willing to bet that Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Intagram, Google, etc. do a lot worse. I logged off, I posted a comment as an anonymous user, but then logged back in, is it visible?