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points by randomblock1 3 days ago | 0 comments

Scroll down to "anonymization": https://ipinfo.io/what-is-my-ip

If there's anything there, monitor your network to figure out exactly what

It lists VPN, Proxy, Tor, etc. Presumably a minus sign in a circle means you don't have the thing?

I had same confusion for a second but the html does clear it up: yes, it means you don't have the thing.

   <li class="...">
     <div class="...">
       <div class="..."></div>
     </div>
     <span class="text-sm">Residential Proxy</span>
     <span class="sr-only">Not detected</span>
   </li>

[–] reincoder 2 days ago

I pinged the web team, they will work on something to make this more legible. (Edit: they have started work on this; if you have any other feedback, please let me know) — Abdullah | DevRel, IPinfo

[–] zahlman 3 days ago

Freaky. They have a page explaining the concept (https://ipinfo.io/data/residential-proxy); when I checked it, there was a FOUC showing a full-screen, stretched image of what I think was Dario Amodei's face.

[–] Retr0id 3 days ago

Neat. I almost said "surely this will only detect if your internet connection is itself being routed through a residential proxy", and then I realised that's effectively the same thing!

[–] advisedwang 3 days ago

AFAIU that tells you if your access to ipinfo.io is thru a residential proxy, not if somebody else is using a residential proxy on your network.

[–] Retr0id 3 days ago

It's effectively the same thing. If a residential proxy is running on your network, your IP will soon become known as a residential proxy exit.

[–] reincoder 2 days ago

We do not run any kind of detection systems when you visit the page. What we do is reference our resproxy detection database, which has a schema like this:

{

  "ip": "175.107.211.204",

  "last_seen": "2025-06-24",

  "percent_days_seen": 14,

  "service": "ipfoxy"

}

We collect the residential proxy data continuously from independent systems; when you visit the page, we take your IP address and look it up in our database. Note the percent_day_seen field, which is frequency metadata. You can also complement it with our device count data to understand if you are on a NATed IP.

If you are on a static IP address and a single user, we flag your IP address as a residential proxy. I think you should install some DNS monitoring service and start uninstalling unnecessary apps from internet-connected devices.

— Abdullah | DevRel, IPinfo

[–] nostrademons 3 days ago

It detects if your IP is a residential proxy, not if you are using a residential proxy. From the perspective of the outside Internet, they are the same thing, the only one who cares about the difference is you.