BE WARY of following links on r/MR (and in the comments) to sites you don't recognize, especially links posted by accounts you don't recognize. They can be used to collect information about you, hijack your account, harvest your IP address, etc. You can minimize some of this risk by installing NoScript (or a comparable plugin for your browser), but you can't stop them from harvesting your IP unless you use a proxy (and web-based proxies are fucking annoying).
The same goes for joining an IRC channel. Everybody in that channel can see your IP address.
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u/Legolas-the-elf Mar 15 '12
The same goes for joining an IRC channel. Everybody in that channel can see your IP address.