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Stop Users Collecting other members IPs

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Grudge

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As it is right now, the signature feature allows JR vips to host an image in their signature.
That's fine but the host can be whatever you want, not just image hosting websites (eg: imgur)

Which basically means that users can:
- Log ALL IPs that see their signature
- Change their image based on: Region, Hour, IP (show a different image to Mods and another one to normal users)
- Show a different image to people that have visited their links before (as they can log the IPs from their website and add it to the "Signature" image system)

I think the people on this forum can think of way worse (or better depending on your point of view) to exploit this system.

Fix: Only allow image hosting websites for the IMG feature
 
So you can show an image based on an IP and log an IP address that you can't trace back to a specific user what's the concern here?
 
Yeah, this isn't an issue for us really. As always, if someone sees a signature that is offensive or breaks the rules, report the user and we'll do some digging. This hasn't really been an issue and millions of websites around the world are doing this to us already.
We'll handle this on a case-by-case basis, but thanks for your feedback :).

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