hide IP addresses without css?

ithcy

I don't necessarily want everyone seeing everyone else's IP addresses all the time. i don't even want to see them myself unless there's a problem with a user. just turning them off via css is not enough. i don't want them in the page source either. has anyone done this? thanks!

jonezy

hmmm why does it matter if they are in the source?

ithcy

because i don't want everyone having access to them. it's not my place to distribute people's identifiers if they don't want them distributed.

Mark

Yeah - I was thinking of doing this for the next revision as well - make it a role-based thing.

ithcy

that is a good idea.

jonezy

yup make it role based.

lech

YOUR COMPUTER MIGHT BE BROADCASTING AN IP ADDRESS!

jonezy

omfg hack the planet

dozens

i had a user ask me about removing this today because when you google their IP, the number one result is a post by them in my vanilla forum. then you click their name and it displays their name and info.

it should be an option to remove. only admins should be able to see IPs....

c-unit

dozens, upgrade to 9.2.6 or wait for 1.0 to be released. I'm 99.9% sure that it is role based.

ithcy

it is. there's a checkbox under role management for "IP Addresses Visible"

Anthony

It's not like every site you go to can see your IP :P

ithcy

this is not about the site admin seeing your IP.
it's about all the users on the board seeing your IP.

Bergamot

ithcy

i hope you're kidding

lech

hahaha!

Minisweeper

I love how those things always get my ip wrong due to my transparent web proxy/cache even though it's easily possible to get my ip with php work.