I know that a lot of VPN users have it as a homepage to their browser, that is why I wanted to publish this warning.

You can replace it with:

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

A simpler and easy to memorize alternative:

curl ifconfig.me
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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (3 children)

    I saw it used in another comment, and am already aware of the use of curl for such a task, but choose to query DNS services instead—especially in scripts.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    but choose to query DNS services instead—especially in scripts.

    Why? What advantages do you get?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago*

    In order to connect to a site like wtfismyip.com you have to do a dns query for the IP address of the server, then query the http port on that IP address, but what if instead, that first dns query gave the answer to your question?

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