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A New Future for Icanhazip

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980 points nkcmr | 1 comments | 06 Jun 21 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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OskarS ◴[06 Jun 21 20:02 UTC] No.27415822[source]▶
I’ve seen packages that do ”internet-detection” by calling out to icanhazip.com, and I just thought that was so irresposnible. What if your package got popular, how much money are you costing the hoster? For services like this, people just don’t consider the fact that there’s someone on the other side.
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1. kortilla ◴[06 Jun 21 20:31 UTC] No.27416043[source]▶
The article was about abusive floods accounting for 90% of the traffic. The author was happy with legitimate use cases like packages doing detection, contrary to your comment.