what the HECK has this website come to

Even rdrama went FULL LOGGING (i do not think they would lie about this, but, you and I have no actual way to confirm this) there's only so much you can do.

Something like NGINX (a solid web server) (apache is for poors and r-slurs) is going to catch the person's user agent (a self-reported string from your browser (if you're not r-slurred you can change your own user agent)), the person's IP address and a few other things that are all either self-reported or involve the website your browser is looking for.

IP address and user agent get you basically jack shit.

If someone lives in buttfrick nowhere, an IP can get you down to an individual address. Opposite end, if you're a citycel, an IP gets you an area containing thousands of people, maybe even more depending on how lazy/incompetent the ISP is (usually very).

User agents can be EASILY forged, but, most people don't know what they are/that they exist, much less to change them, which can get you something as specific as "safari on ios17" but that only tells you your perp is an iphon user somewhere in three zipcodes in california.

>What about cell phones?

You still get the same info, it's the same internet/protocol.

THEORETICALLY mobile providers keep logs of DHCP leases (the way your phone asks for the IP it gets) they hand out but realistically speaking they're too fricking cheap to buy edge announce machines that can actually fricking hold an ipv6 table in memory (poors btfo again) so they're using CGNAT (NAT at the ISP level) to share like five fricking ipv4 addresses between millions of subscribers (i'm slightly exaggerating).

Because of this, and because for about ten years now there's been a major brain drain at most major transit providers (hurricane electric IS the internet (sprintcels cope and seethe), seeing them get involving in the citrus ranch debacle was fricking shocking) and other major actual infrastructure (AWS is cute but they had to come bend the knee for peering like everyone else) companies, shit is falling apart. Because of that, actual commercial logs (cell phone providers, your ISP, etc) are spotty and fricked in ways they shouldn't be.

Don't forget that it's now offensive to ask about half the united states for any form of identification.

This culminates in a weird form of dystopian anarcho-tyranny: if you ACTUALLY piss off the fed boys, they can find you with cowtools that can do exactly what a five year old would think they could do.

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