Aug. 13, 2022, 1:57 a.m. | /u/No-Assumption-4884

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Basically i'm on discord via google Chrome, and some people in a server were sending IP loggers and very suspicious links. So lets say I hover over the link and don't click on it is it possible for the website to get my IP address? I read online that chrome uses preloading pages (its in google chrome setting) and can the site can get your ip address that way?

According to chrome :

" To load web pages faster, Chrome …

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