Red zone and Imprudence

[Jenni Genira]

Does anyone know how to bypass being detected by red zone with the Imprudence viewer? Does disabling all the media, etc really work?

[Peewee Musytari]

RedZone shouldn`t still be around, but yes you are correct if you disable Media/Audio then your IP address cannot be detected.

[Jooey Mefusula]

You could try asking in-world in the Imprudence Viewer group.

 

[Rolig Loon]

Redzone's creator was banned from SL and Redzone should no longer exist, so there shouldn't be anything to worry about.  The Phoenix viewer opens a little dialog box if you have your parcel media turned on and enter a new parcel where streaming media is active.  I assume that most of the other viewers do too now.  You have the option to Accept or Deny the media stream, or to permanently blacklist or whitelist it.  That window is a response to residents' concerns about IP snoopers.  If Redzone or anything else tries to determine your IP address by seeing where the stream is being sent, that should stop it.

[Ansariel Hiller]

Just to make sure: Whenever you play media or use shared media aka media on a prim, your IP will be send to whatever address you are browsing and sets you at risk of getting datamined. So this is not only restricted to RedZone, because practically everyone offering a stream or similar can track you IP.

[PeterCanessa Oh]

To expand: And the same is true of every single web-page you ever visit on the internet. Your computer sends a message to the server saying 'please send me ...' and your IP address is the necessary return-address the server uses (and logs and possibly mis-uses)

[Ansariel Hiller]

True, but if you have set up your computer configuration correct, they won't be able to datamine you. In SL however, you can create a dynamic URL with LSL scripts that invoke a URL transmitting data to identify you, for instance your UUID. Getting back to RedZone which was asked in the original question: RedZone made the assumption that IP addresses do not change and assumed that when another avatar with the same IP address contacts the RedZone servers it was an alt.

[PeterCanessa Oh]

Oh yeah, redzone was rubbish in the first place because of all the false-positives, let alone move to a public wifi spot and give it a false-negative. What got them banned was the misuse though, not the logging.

:-) And the very reason for a lot a lot of features in browsers and other stuff is that any site can, very much, be the start of a data-mine. It doesn't have to store a cookie on your computer, it just has to 'phone home' with the fact you've visited; *bang* another hit against your IP address.

Opinion is divided on all this though - the "tracking is bad" camp includes just about everyone who knows about it. "Tracking is good" gets support from sociopath advertising agencies. "Don't know" belongs to ... er, probably 90% of people who know nothing about the issue at all ... and politicians who are bribed not to take the advertising companies to court.