Hey All,

Over the past while I’ve been working on a few Privacy projects and the latest one is this Reverse IP lookup using free api’s. Tried to to keep the code as small and lightweight to run offline if you copy the source and paste into notepad and save as html for simple use.

But I’ve been noticing, and i’ll bet others have too of cloned copies floating up a short while later or with the default Perchance template example still in the list box and duplicates of the same projects with randomly generated titles and uploaded and floods the page blocking some projects from being noticed.

I know you can have a private version and work from which is handy as each save doesn’t flood the public gallery with randomly generated duplicates of the same projects over and over so why not impose a direct title for the new generator and an option for a private version to work on before releasing it publicly and clean up the gallery.

With saying that, all my projects have my dev notes in the comments and a section linking my projects to URLs and… the clones also have the same details… Sloppy Copy Paste… and its unfair to other users. I don’t mind that they used the project and cloned it, i wouldn’t share it freely otherwise to edit and modify as a helping start or even a small bit of “Hey nice project, can i work of it?” and i’d be delighted and probably scald you wondering how you are getting on or if you needed help because working on projects and stuff like this is a bit of a laugh and a torment but once i make or see a project that’s nicely put together and nice tidy code and stuff and if they have a comment section, i shlap in a Comment On how i appreciate the work involved and its nice to nice. Anyways Rant over… that was nice

Her’s the project by the way IP Lookup

  • Tod_1ncignitoOPEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Nah, it just uses standard, free, public geolocation APIs. It absolutely cannot find a person’s home address, their name, their phone number, or their personal identity. It just points to a general node on a map owned by a telecom company.

    Think of it like running netstat in a terminal to see your connections, or pinging a server to check public routing info. All this console does is take an IP, query that public routing data, and display it nicely in a tidy, framework-free interface. It only returns generalized information like the Internet Service Provider (ISP), the general region or country, and an approximate timezone.