TekSavvy → Re: MLPPP pricing discussion

then dont tell them about the static IP. People here need to lose the tinfoil hats. Static or Dynamic either way if you did something wrong you are going to get caught. Remember ISP's keep track of who has what IP when. And for the whole DDOS thing it's not too hard to find the IP you changed to. They will just use the same method they used to find you the first time because whereever you were once chances are you will go back again,.

i prefer my static, since i have it memorized, and i dont have to use some stupid dynamic ip program or somecrap when i wanna host saomething off my network

What in my post suggested to you that my friends are a bunch of criminals whose need dynamic IP addresses to conceal their illicit activities?

How about just being able to clear your cookies and reboot your modem to appear as a new person to data-mining operations like Google?

Let's just embrace DPI for the purposes of harvesting user data and delivering targeted advertising while we are at it...

And let's deliberately install spyware on our computers. Anyone who would object to spyware just has their "tinfoil hat" on too tightly, right?

Well you are welcome to pay for a static IP. My router running tomato already supports DDNS services and then I don't have to make any sacrifices like being stuck with a static IP.

And most people I know don't even need to use a DDNS. They have no use whatsoever for a static IP, it is purely a downside. And it's a downside they are going to have to actually pay for.

A single IP address doesn't need to tell a data mining company very much.

If you install squiggle (a firefox plugin) it will skew the data for google all to hell for a start. If you have more than one of you under one roof all using the same connection there is little to differentiate between you to the search engine the other end with NAT taking care of things at your end. This is just off the top of my head... There are plenty of other things you can do.

Static IP's are not as scary as folks like to think, sure I would occasionally use my dynamic status to reconnect to grab more stuff from one of the download sites that restrict you to one download every three months or so, but loosing that ability is no major hardship. There are other ways around that.

If you care that much about your privacy that you see a static IP as the big enemy, and can't see ways around it then you are possibly best off yanking the cable out of the back of your computer.