Skipper on Nostr: Nostr clients are using your IP geolocation and/or checking your browser language – ...
Nostr clients are using your IP geolocation and/or checking your browser language – to automaticly show notes from other users who also share the same country as you.
This leaks information about the user location/country, and is major concern for privacy reasons.
Not sure if every client is doing this, #Snort #Iris are clearly doing it, especially noticeable when not logged in. When logged in there is no option to disable this behavoiour and seems to be enabled by default.
Karnage (npub1r0r…q9ac) Kieran (npub1v0l…qj49) Martti Malmi (npub1g53…drvk) can any of you explain what's going on?
#nostr #privacy #opsec
This leaks information about the user location/country, and is major concern for privacy reasons.
Not sure if every client is doing this, #Snort #Iris are clearly doing it, especially noticeable when not logged in. When logged in there is no option to disable this behavoiour and seems to be enabled by default.
Karnage (npub1r0r…q9ac) Kieran (npub1v0l…qj49) Martti Malmi (npub1g53…drvk) can any of you explain what's going on?
#nostr #privacy #opsec