I think the concern the OP brings up is- what is to prevent bad actors from removing themselves from the list due to 'privacy reasons' and thereby rendering the list basically useless? I believe this should have been like that since the said in ip2location as alternative for MaxMind databases: I may be wrong, but I am 99% sure Maxmind is headed this way and soon enough, pfblocker's devs will have to recode it to accept other sources or provide the posibility to disable it entirely.
#IP2LOCATION SEND HTTP GET FREE#
Countless "free" services I have seen moving from totally free ( here's the data, grab it as you wish) to " oh now you have to create an account and enter your personal info", to " sorry this is now commercial and you will have to pay to continue using it". They are asking for real info (not throwaway email or etc) proving my point.
Over the years I have had to enter personal info (email, phone number, etc) just to be able to register to forums, services, etc, only to later find out that ther are NO possibility of deleting your account or information. Most of them dont even allow deleting or closing an account and they retain your data pretty much forever just to be the victim of the next data breach, and sell it to the highest bidder. Once you enter your info, good luck removing it from their services. I am tired of entering my personal info all over the web just to get "free stuff". This is becoming an interesting conversation, I didnt expect said in ip2location as alternative for MaxMind databases:Īside from the fact that using fake info violates their TOSĮxactly my point. Seems more like they just want an excuse to get info from the people that are using their so called "free" list. Do you have to remove the whole freaking 1/8?Īnd what happens when the next day user B gets. 101, pretty clear that 1.2.3/24 is used in the US. 101 and not all of 1.2.3/24 for starters? Are you going to have specific entries for every single IP? even if you remove. But user A doesn't care and maybe even wants his IP listed. What happens when isp having say range 1.2.3/24 located in US hands user A 1.2.3.100, and user B 1.2.3.101Īnd user B says hey - don't list my. is some violation of your privacy is just freaking nuts. That the geoip for the IP says its from country X, or state Y or even city Z. But the vast majority of IPs are just IPs handed to a user from their ISP. I could see a concern when the IP pointed to your specific address or something. I think the whole thing stinks of company taking a privacy law and trying to monetize it to be honest. UPDATE: There are another one great geo-service DB-IP
But anyway, sooner or later that problem come popup again. Of course I know, that this is additional work for programmers, etc, etc. What is bad to make ability to choose in pfSense in what DB to work MaxMind / ip2location ? ip2location is one of the well-known and reputable companies.
#IP2LOCATION SEND HTTP GET FULL#
So, at this moment DB maintainer that not stretched by US/EU laws able to keep DB as full as possible. The source of problems are in another place, not in MaxMind / other maintainers DB. Some kind of digital madness IMHO, because this GDPR / CCPA not really against the problem of users private data. Like in MaxMind for end user there are free "Lite" DB to download.ĭue GDPR and CCPA really not make security in IT better (because some companies and bad guys starting to using this legal ability (so called “Do Not Sell” requests) to makes security tasks for admins more complicated) and largest DB start to degrade in quality. Let's to note that another one great DB exist - from ip2location company.