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rdsubhas ◴[] No.16728163[source]
> We will never sell your data or use it to target ads. Period.

Won't sell != Won't collect

> We will never log your IP address (the way other companies identify you)

Never log IP != Never log anything

Bonus: The way other companies identify you ~= There are other ways

Edit: Looks like many people assume I'm nitpicking. So here are more specific questions:

* Is logging a hashcode of the IP considered as "not logging the IP"?

* Can combination of timestamp, packet info other than end IP (latency, hops, etc), geoIP and other factors be used for deep intelligence?

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eastdakota ◴[] No.16729896[source]
I'm fine with nitpicking. Let me try and be clear: We're not logging IPs. We inherently receive them when they connect to the service, but we don't write them to disk and flush them quickly (i.e., seconds or minutes). We're not logging hashes of IPs. We're not logging ASNs of the IPs connecting to the service. We do log the other parts of a DNS query in order to help prevent abuse and debug issues. However, we've committed to wiping these logs within 24 hours. We have no interest in doing anything to deanonymize users. We have a great business based in large part around making the Internet more private and secure. Logically: we would never sacrifice that great business to get into a crappy data sharing service.
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1. rdsubhas ◴[] No.16730320[source]
Thank you for the clarification.