It garbles advertisers’ data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can’t work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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    You can fake your IP. There isnt really any authentication at the IP level. Just make a packet and overwite the IP field.

    Edit: I was corrected. The TCP handshake requires you to have a valid IP you can respond from. So even though you can fake your IP, you can’t use that to talk to most websites.

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      Just make a packet and overwite the IP field.

      I can tell I’m getting old by the amount of proudly-dumb shit I keep reading.

      It’s only going to get worse. Sigh.

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        I misremembered my internet class. Sucks that it made ya feel bad.

        Edit: and you can put whatever you want as your source IP at the IP level. Though idk how modern security deals with that. I know I was taught that that was a way to DoS attack, so I imagine it’s protected against.

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          If you just do it on your own computer, the packet will be already dropped by your own gateway. You can fake whichever address in your local subnet, but those are very likely remapped anyway in your gw to the one given by your ISP.

          If you would have access to the switch port used by your ISP in the Internet exchange point (IX), you would have more liberties in choosing the IP.