how to block certain anons – at your service.
requested by @leciasxmusesHey guys, so recently in our inbox, we got a submission about anon hate and tracking IP addresses of anon asks. Sadly, I’ve been doing some research and with the new tumblr asks, I cannot find any way to track the IP address but you can block the IP address from sending any more anon messages to your inbox. So if you are getting anon hate or say someone is taking advantage of your triggers, this is how you block an anon’s IP address, it’s simple and actually a tumblr feature:1. Go to the message in the inbox and press the three grey dots in the corner of the message. 2. Press the block button3. Click the blue ‘Block’ and this will block and anonymous messages from that IP address from getting sent to your inbox. You can still get sent messages from the actual account but not! You have now blocked that IP address from sending you anon messages. It’s not a perfect fix but it’s something. I hope this helps someone out there!
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10/20/2021
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If you want Clarity to stop tracking certain IP addresses, you can add them to a blocklist. This excludes internal IPs such that related data isn’t added to data gathered from your site’s visitors.
Dashboard: Site visitors on the list won’t contribute to the tracked metrics.
Recordings: No sessions from visitors on the list are recorded.
Heatmaps: Site visitors on the list won’t have their activity included on click maps or scroll maps.
Note
Clarity only supports IPv4 addresses. We do not support IPv6 or dynamic IP addresses.
Block an IP address from tracking
To set up IP exclusion, you need to be an administrator for your project. If you aren’t, you can see which IP addresses are blocked, but you can’t change anything.
Step 1
Go to Clarity > Settings > IP blocking, and select Block IP address.
Step 2
On the Block IP address screen, make your selections and then select Block.
Name: Enter a friendly name to identify the IP address.
Block my current IP: Check the box if you want to exclude your IP address.
IP address: Enter the IP address.
Tip
You can also block a range of IP addresses. See the next section for details.
Once you’ve entered one or more IP addresses, each one is displayed in a list on the IP blocking page.
You may need to wait about 15 minutes for the changes to come into effect.
Block a range of IP addresses
If you want to block a whole range of IP addresses, you don’t need to enter them one by one.
On the Block IP address screen, make your selections and select Add.
Name: Enter a friendly name to identify the range of IP addresses.
IP address: Enter a set of specific IP addresses you would like to block. If you want to block of range of contiguous IP addresses, you can specify them individually. However, you can also use the CIDR range of the form
Stop blocking an IP address
Go to Clarity > Settings > IP blocking, and select the
icon to the right of the IP address you want to unblock.
On the Unblock this IP address screen, select Unblock.
Verify that an IP address is blocked
You can verify that an IP address is blocked if you visit the page from that IP address.
Browsing with a blocked IP address, go to the webpage you want to verify.
Open the JavaScript console of your browser and look for a message.
A message is displayed at the top of the console: “Data from this session is not being collected by Microsoft Clarity due to your configured project settings. ”
You can find the JavaScript console in Edge or Chrome from your browser’s main menu: More Tools > Developer tools.
FAQ
For more answers, refer to General FAQ.
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IP address blocking – Wikipedia
IP address blocking is a configuration of a network service that blocks requests from hosts with certain IP addresses. IP address blocking is commonly used to protect against brute force attacks and to prevent access by a disruptive address.
IP address blocking can be used to restrict access to or from a particular geographic area, for example, the syndication of content to a specific region through the use of Internet geolocation and blocking. [1]
How it works[edit]
Every device connected to the Internet is assigned a unique IP address, which is needed to enable devices to communicate with each other. With appropriate software on the host website, the IP address of visitors to the site can be logged and can also be used to determine the visitor’s geographical location. [2][3]
Logging the IP address can, for example, monitor if a person has visited the site before, for example to vote more than once, as well as to monitor their viewing pattern, how long since they performed any activity on the site (and set a time out limit), besides other things.
Knowing the visitor’s geo-location indicates, besides other things, the visitor’s country. In some cases requests from or responses to a certain country would be blocked entirely. Geo-blocking has been used, for example, to target Nigerian IP addresses due to the perception that all business originating from the country is fraudulent, thus making it extremely difficult for legitimate businesses based in the country to interact with their counterparts in the rest of the world. To make purchases abroad, Nigerians must rely on proxy servers to disguise the true origin of an Internet request. [citation needed]
Internet users may circumvent geo-blocking and censorship and protect personal identity and location to stay anonymous on the internet using a VPN connection.
On a website, an IP address block can prevent a disruptive address from access, though a warning and/or account block may be used first. Dynamic allocation of IP addresses by ISPs can complicate incoming IP address blocking, rendering it difficult to block a specific user without blocking many IP addresses (blocks of IP address ranges), thereby creating collateral damage.
Implementations[edit]
Unix-like operating systems commonly implement IP address blocking using a TCP wrapper, configured by host access control files /etc/ and /etc/
Both companies and schools offering remote user access use Linux programs such as DenyHosts or Fail2ban for protection from unauthorised access while allowing permitted remote access. This is also useful for allowing remote access to computers. It is also used for Internet censorship.
Circumvention[edit]
Proxy servers and other methods can be used to bypass the blocking of traffic from IP addresses. [4] However, anti-proxy strategies are available. Consumer-grade internet routers can sometimes obtain a new public IP address on demand from the internet service provider using DHCP lease renewal to circumvent individual IP address blocks, but this can be countered by blocking the range of IP addresses from which the internet service provider is assigning new IP addresses, which is usually a shared IP address prefix. However, this may impact legitimate users from the same internet service provider who have IP addresses in the same range, which inadvertently creates a denial-of-service attack.
In a 2013 United States court ruling in the case Craigslist v. 3Taps, US federal judge Charles R. Breyer held that circumventing an address block to access a website is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for “unauthorized access”, punishable by civil damages.
See also[edit]
Block (Internet)
Content-control software
References[edit]
^ The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law, Center for Computer/Law, 2003
^ “What is an IP address? “. HowStuffWorks. 2001-01-12. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
^ “How cookies track you around the web & how to stop them”. 2018-02-24. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
^ “How to: Circumvent Online Censorship”. Archived from the original on 2018-12-23.
Media related to IP address blocking at Wikimedia Commons
Frequently Asked Questions about tumblr block ip address
How do I block certain IP addresses?
If you want to block a whole range of IP addresses, you don’t need to enter them one by one.Go to Clarity > Settings > IP blocking, and select Block IP address.On the Block IP address screen, make your selections and select Add. Name: Enter a friendly name to identify the range of IP addresses.4 days ago
How do you unblock an IP address on Tumblr?
There’s no way to unblock an anonymous IP address, and if you keep receiving these anonymous asks from different (and unblocked) IP addresses, you’ll have to disable anonymous asks or disable the ask feature entirely in your blog settings.
Is IP blocking illegal?
In a 2013 United States court ruling in the case Craigslist v. 3Taps, US federal judge Charles R. Breyer held that circumventing an address block to access a website is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for “unauthorized access”, punishable by civil damages.