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[–] videocodec ago 

As opposed to not worrying about jewflair not doing the same thing? At some point you can let them silence you or you can choose to speak.

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[–] Sancus ago  (edited ago)

You know nothing about the subject if you really think it would take that long to capture 32 (IPv4 address) or 128 (IPv6 address) bits of information. A bit is the smallest amount of information in a computer system (a 1 or a 0).

Let's put that into perspective. My average upload speed right now is about 12 Mbps (megabits per second). 1 megabit = 1,000,000 bits. My upload speed is then 12,000,000 bits per second. Assuming an IPv4 address (32 bits), I could send my IP address 375,000 times in a single second (IPv6 93,750 times per second). In reality, you aren't simply sending your IP address. You are sending many thousands of packets of information, but each packet bears your IP address so the receiving party knows who it belongs to and how to handle the information.

Now that I've shown that it's retarded to think that 'logging your IP' would cause any noticeable slowdown, let me also say that if 'logging your IP' did take any significant amount of time, it still wouldn't slow down anything on your browser.

Every packet you send will end up in a buffer at the destination. It is then the job of the receiving party (Voat in this case) to handle any processing necessary for that information. Any 'logging of your IP' is going to be happening on Voat hardware (which is also likely to be magnitudes more powerful than yours), not on your hardware and certainly not within your browser, and thus wouldn't be slowing down your experience in any significant way either.

That being said, your IP is most definitely, without a doubt being logged. Just probably not by Voat. Most likely by your service provider who is being paid/mandated by the government to do such a thing.