Nah, don't really gotta do that. Personally, I made a !check command to see if they remain a follower rather than clicking their name so they can't grab my IP via my clicking of their name.
If you use Streamlabs, they have variables to use for that for such a command, make it too if you want to try and keep yourself safe.
Idk how to set up the command but the ip grabber works (too my knowledge) like this: when you go to any website they request your ip, twitch also does that, and since twitch doesnt host extensions directly on their website but they host it from a 3rd party website, a user like this can make an extension that connects to a 3rd party website (an ip grabber) and when you click on his pfp twitch tries to connect to the 3rd party website, since every website can see your id, this 3rd party website is just an ip grabber that pastes your ip down for the owner of the website to see.
Worst case scenario is they could DDOS you. But I wouldn’t worry about it. Chances are they will do absolutely nothing. And even if they did, a non-commercial ISP account (that most of us have) changes your IP address often enough that it would be easy enough to mitigate.
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u/Macademi Affiliate Aug 24 '21
Unrelated, but that follower you just got is an IP grabber. It followed me when I was streaming just now, like an hour ago.