privacy

You've seen the meme: "send this link and I'll know your IP". Underneath the joke sits a real tool with a real family name — IP logger, grabify, "IP grabber", not to mention the tracking links hiding inside ordinary-looking shortened URLs. Every day thousands of people search for these tools...

Here's a story for the eight-year-old in all of us: you want to cross a guarded gate. The proper ticket costs fifteen bucks a month. Someone in an alley is selling "guaranteed tickets" for two bucks. You buy one, walk to the gate, and the guard looks at it, laughs, and points at the tiny print...