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Comment by xdrosenheim | Hacker News Reader

I never understood what was wring people seeing my personal, private IP address... I can call my ISP and get a new one in seconds, or turn my router off for 5 minutes to get a new one.

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When you're playing games, it can mean that people can DDOS you, or otherwise just like, send bad stuff your way.

Both of the solutions you have still disrupt the game, even if they do temporarily solve the issue.

If the people you're playing with DDOS you, you need to find new people to play with.

Sure, but that doesn't help you in the midst of it.

It's also like, sort of kind of not how social games work in many cases. In order to make friends in the first place, you gotta get out there.

Do you want to be friends with people in a community where having the admin look up your IP and ddos you is acceptable???

Imagine I want to go out tonight. None of my friends do. So I go to a new place and start talking to people at the bar. One of them stabs me.

No, I do not want to be friends with those people. But I don’t know that yet, because we have not met. The only way to meet them is to... meet them.

The consequences of being ddosed are not exactly the same as the consequences of being stabbed. I think you'll survive this terrible, unlikely ordeal.

Games with matchmaking will permanently ban your account if you leave games too often. It's a risk: "CS:GO - Competitive Cooldowns and Bans - Steam Support" https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1203-WJC...

How many competitive games are you playing where the enemy team is an admin on your teamspeak server and feels it is appropriate to ddos you?

All sorts of things can leak your IP. Source engine is one, Teamspeak is another.

Not sure how using discord really solves the evil admin scenario though? Since the game server admin will still be able to see your IP Address.

I really have a hard time imagining a scenario where I can trust the game server admin, but not the admin hosting my voice server. Especially if it's some team-based game.

I am not saying Discord solves this problem, I am just saying it’s a real problem.

Also, not every game that uses Discord has the “server admin” model. Most of the games I play do not. Still use Discord though.

I can call your ISP and get your subscriber information (unless you're behind CGNAT).

Here's a convenient, albeit somewhat outdated pastebin explaining how https://pastebin.com/ViWmrsDJ

Not really sure they allowed to send you _any_ of that information in Denmark/EU.

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