Ipinfo.io – Halloween Hunt 2023

Ok that's what it sounded like in the 15 seconds I spent on the page. Not sure why this is being promoted. It's somewhat useful to me sometimes to have that data but still not something I think we should have.

I hate how it’s heavily marketed as a “challenge” and a “learning opportunity” when it’s a clear attempt to crowdsource for-profit IP geolocation data. There’s nothing challenging about running around collecting data for free, neither is there much to be learned.

The “challenge” has been on for 7 days. The stats say there are 1,779,796 IPs collected by 221 participants. That means on average each of these participants had to submit 1,150 IP location pairs, per day. How is that even possible?