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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: 0.209s | source
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Ayesh ◴[06 Jun 21 20:01 UTC] No.27415818[source]▶
I was using icanhazip to check if my Tor circuit was complete, and probably made 50-100 requests per week. The site was getting slow, and I thought it is just a random site that the author didn't really care too much.

I dropped my jaw when I read it was getting 30B req/day.

Thank you for running this site for so long, and thank you for keeping it up for free, and deciding to not monetize it.

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tyingq ◴[06 Jun 21 20:43 UTC] No.27416146[source]▶
I got a lot of mileage out of neverssl.com before somebody fixed the process to log into various "guest wifi" setups...ones that would intercept/redirect any http request.

I'm somewhat curious what fixed things, as I've not had to use neverssl.com for some time.

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1. Tijdreiziger ◴[06 Jun 21 23:14 UTC] No.27417246[source]▶
Ha, I could've used this ~a year ago when I moved into my current rental apartment. Fiber optic internet is included in the rent (in the form of an RJ45 jack in my wall), but there's a captive portal requiring you to enter your contract ID, which resulted in having to scour my memory and bookmarks for a non-HTTPS site.