If you are not logged in, your IP address is not saved. If you are logged in, your last IP address is saved as a hash. If you have concerns about this, go find a public hot spot log in and it'll overwrite.
Privacy policy says they store an IP hash not an IP address.
A hash is not an IP address.
A hash is a one-way math function. Two things can be compared to check if they are equal, without knowing what they are by checking to see if their hashes are the same. This is how passwords are checked when you login to anything anywhere.
With that, a site can IP ban, in theory, by hashing a test IP address then comparing its hash with a list of hashes of banned IP addresses.
People using TOR and VPN services to get to TDW so they can come here without getting fired by their woke boss make it very difficult to IP ban. Not reading the minds of management here, but that may be why they don't do it. Having Cloudflare in front of of website like TDW takes care of some bad behavior based on the behavior, not the source IP address(es).
A DDOS is by definition, distributed, using a ton of sources with different IP addresses all at once usually in a botnet. It means older methods like firewall-type rules became an unwinnable game of whack-a-mole.
Privacy policy and site Terms of Service, very bottom right. You may have to scroll down, but here they are.
TDW TOS: https://thedonald.win/tos
TDW: Privacy: https://thedonald.win/privacy
If you are not logged in, your IP address is not saved. If you are logged in, your last IP address is saved as a hash. If you have concerns about this, go find a public hot spot log in and it'll overwrite.
But I’m guessing they save ips
Did you read the privacy policy?
Don't guess when you don't have to.
He SAID they ip ban. If the ip isn’t saved how can they do that? I’m guessing they only ban the last iPhone used to log in?
Privacy policy says they store an IP hash not an IP address.
A hash is not an IP address.
A hash is a one-way math function. Two things can be compared to check if they are equal, without knowing what they are by checking to see if their hashes are the same. This is how passwords are checked when you login to anything anywhere.
With that, a site can IP ban, in theory, by hashing a test IP address then comparing its hash with a list of hashes of banned IP addresses.
People using TOR and VPN services to get to TDW so they can come here without getting fired by their woke boss make it very difficult to IP ban. Not reading the minds of management here, but that may be why they don't do it. Having Cloudflare in front of of website like TDW takes care of some bad behavior based on the behavior, not the source IP address(es).
A DDOS is by definition, distributed, using a ton of sources with different IP addresses all at once usually in a botnet. It means older methods like firewall-type rules became an unwinnable game of whack-a-mole.
Some similar concepts discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function