I'll gladly accept any patch that works in a equally robust manner.
Or would you feel better if rather than connecting to Google we
connected to another site with near 100% uptime?
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...but the metadata that someone made a connection from my ip is present
on their servers. It is a 'well known trick' yes, but one that relies
on betraying our metadata to a 3rd party known for betraying the privacy
of its users, nevermind those who are accidentally opening sockets
without realizi
The nice thing about open source is that you can exactly see what's
going on and what data is sent across (if any).
In this case, I'm using a well-known trick in Python to determine your
local IP address by opening a connection to an ubiquitously available
site, and then using that connection to g
