If you have nothing to hide, in my opinion, cheap VPN and browser extensions like AdBlock (uBlock), User-Agent Switcher and soon, are enough.Bionic IP Grabber is a lightweight application with a pretty self-explanatory name. On extreme, you could use Tor browser - while slow, its usually secure enough. If you are worried about your privacy, you should always use some VPN and privacy oriented browser extensions or other software. It's friendly, non-malicious extension that shows which country from are your viewers. It's worth noting, some extensions use the very "feature" the attacker are using - for example, Viewer Geolocation. Even if Twitch prohibits usage of URL to links from unpopular links (allowing only popular sites like Imgur), I don't think they will disallow external APIs usage by extension developers - not only it would break many extensions, but it would render many of them not fixable, so they would be abandoned and removed. In my opinion, aside of banning account using such exploits, not much - as extension that can use no external images or API would be very limited.
#Ip grabber registration
\ - if you have brought and using your very own public address from your ISP you might be in more trouble, as sometimes ISP are providing your IP registration details/contact to public database (WhoIs).* What can Twitch do about it? It usually* can't lead straight to your doors, but can be useful in case of location estimation or tracking you over the internet (if happen to be using really unique combination of those parameters). While privacy is important, the data collected is just publicly visible by any website you are visiting.
Should you be concerned? Well, yes and no. Usually it can leak info about IP, country, ISP, browser version, device type, OS, battery level, whenever its charging or not, device orientation, screen size, preferred language. However, some extension allow Markdown to use external images, and again, those are downloaded from URL possibly of attacker hands.īasically, when you open someone channel and your browser load the channel description, it require loading images from external servers - but those servers may log info about the connection and you. Even if we assume those extension are trusted, some of them still can be exploited by the person installing them on their channel, for example, some extension allow for Markdown - nice and easy way to edit text. Most of extension use some kind of external images or APIs, so extension devs basically can call for image or JSON file (just some API data) from their servers, which could be logging each communication attempt. You can use various extensions to enhance your stream or your channel description (including fancy panels). The issue is in how Twitch and Twitch extensions work: Thanks to /u/iTruthful and Conceptional for the art! Clip Contest: January 7th - 13th AMA: Previously: Certified Ergonomic Specialist and an Occupational Therapist