What is an IP address? And why should you hide it?
When you head out into public, to a coffee shop to meet friends or a convenience store for some supplies, you don't usually have your phone number or home address pasted to the back of your jacket. However, when you browse the internet, that's sort of what happens, except with your internet protocol (IP) address. Nothing would usually come of wearing your address prominently on your jacket, but that one time something did happen you'd wish you'd taken a precautionary step. In the case of an IP address, that step is hiding it from the public.
- What is an IP address?
- Why hide or mask an IP address?
- Hide your IP address with a proxy
- Hide your IP address with a VPN
- Wrapping up
What is an IP address?
The internet is a big place. That big place is filled with websites and connected computers that access and host them. To keep track of the computers on the internet, each one that's connected is assigned an IP address. It's sort of like how you differentiate homes on a street by their numbers, except here the numbers are longer.
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