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Re:Show HN: Got rejected by Hotjar, decided to build my own by XCSme on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:06AM (#28876105)
> we rolled out IP screening (all happens client-side)

How can you detect the IP client-side only without sending any request to any server?

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Re:Show HN: Got rejected by Hotjar, decided to build my own by Chris86 on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:30AM (#28876253)
Sorry, client-side was not in fact accurate: We check the incoming IP address against a list of blacklisted IP addresses stored for a site before upgrading the WebSocket connection
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