> no tracking

I wouldn't say there is no tracking at all. There might be no tracking by you and there certainly is no Javascript tracking applied, both of which is better than >90% websites out there, but you use two external resources, first bootstrapcdn for css and second giphy for the kitten gif. Those web sites get data for each request, including ip address, user agent and (possibly / if the browser supports it) cookie information.

giphy is a startup that is monetized via ads while bootstrapcdn's privacy policy explicitly states that it uses the ip address and user agent information for targeted advertisement [1]. As you are using a deeplink, you might avoid giphy's tracking which might only be js based, but one can never know. bootstrapcdn was built to be used as a CDN so they will definitely use the data that servers get for tracking.

So don't visit this website too often unless you want to see cat food ads :). Or IDK.

I don't think there is a big benefit from using a CDN for the CSS file, but self hosting the kitten picture means of course a big increase of traffic and idk how it looks like from a license point of view. I have no idea what a privacy friendly kitten picture hosting service would be.

[1]: https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/privacy-policy/

Decentraleyes neuters CDN tracking.

It doesn't handle non-US countries particularly well. It found my city, and the post code is close by (2000), but then the query in the Google Maps URL is just "2000". How will that get me here? Maybe add the country code to the Google Maps URL, e.g. "<country code> <post code>"?

Otherwise, appropriate shameless plug. I only mention the above, because I could see myself making use of it.

Please refresh and see what happens.

Thanks for the quick change. That's definitely better.

Unfortunately, most European countries aren't federal states, and so dividing them by "state" (more like region, county, department or province) makes little sense. Although, that being said, I am confident that Google would find "2000 Capital Region" correctly, no matter where I search from. (Can't really test it, since Google is clever enough to base the post code on where I'm searching from.)

I am able to be neither a beggar nor a chooser with the API that I am leveraging to geo-code the IP addresses, because I am not paying for it! Either way, thank you for letting me know about non-US use-cases.

I can see my inter-net number at the top and it knows I have firefox. How is that not tracking. :(

(\s. Just in case)

It gave me the face melt scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, definitely not a kitten

[maybe NSFW and could be disturbing or funny depending on your personality]:

https://i.imgur.com/nu5jkyo.png

https://giphy.com/gifs/room-mega-ilovefuzzcom-oYbahUPK6yWfC

That's good. I've been using jsonip but I think I'll switch to yours, because it's still nice and minimal! It's good to have the geoip even though it's inaccurate. Right now geoip thinks I'm in Ft Lauderdale when I'm actually in Miami.

    This server could not prove that it is ipkitten.com;
    its security certificate is from
    cambridgecamps.paytrax.com.
    This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an
    attacker intercepting your connection.

Sad face :(

The only goal of the website is to deliver kitten GIFs and IPv4 addresses. It does not send an SSL certificate, pursuant to that goal.

But it does send a certificate if you ask for it - cambridgecamps.paytrax.com https://ipkitten.com/

Gives Firefox (via HTTPS Everywhere) a sad face.

>Felkod: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

>cambridgecamps.paytrax.com

Where is the valuable ipv4 information? I knew my IP address and user agent already.

It seems to have been hugged to death (at least for me in Canada)

that is an oddly appropriate shameless plug.

Did we break it?

Yes, thank you.

EDIT: We are back.