Can a Website Identify Me When I Visit?

☀️ Web servers get your IP address when you visit. Whether or not that or other information can be used to identify you, specifically, depends on a lot of things.

☀️ Can a website identify me?
Websites do get your IP address when you visit, but that alone is not enough to identify who you are or where you’re located. Most commonly, websites know who you are because you told them — either by signing in or in some other explicit way.

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Chapters
0:00 Can a Website Identify Me
1:00 Your IP address is not “you”
2:18 Obscuring your IP address
4:30 You give away much more information yourself
7:38 Advertising does and does not care who you are

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