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What is my IP address?

Short answer

Your IP address is the number your internet provider assigns to your connection, and every website you visit can see it. It reveals your approximate location and who provides your internet. A VPN replaces it with the address of a shared server, so sites see that instead.

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Background

What your IP address actually gives away

An IP address is a routing label, not a name. On its own it tells a website roughly where you are and which company connects you. That sounds harmless until you notice the second half: your provider holds the record connecting that address to your account, your address and your payment details, and in many countries is obliged to keep it.

So the address itself is not the sensitive part. The link is. Every site you visit records an identifier that one company can turn into your identity on request, and the request need not come with a court order in every jurisdiction.

Your IP address is not your name. It is the number someone else can look your name up with.

What changes when you use a VPN

Sites see the VPN server’s address, shared with many other people at once, and your provider sees only an encrypted connection to that server rather than a list of destinations. The link between what you do and who you are is broken at the point where it used to be strongest.

What does not change

Your browser fingerprint stays exactly as it was: timezone, screen size, fonts, graphics hardware. Accounts you log into still know you. This is the part our industry routinely oversells, so we built a free scanner that shows you the whole picture rather than only the half we solve.

FAQ

IP address questions

What is my IP address?
Your IP address is the number your internet provider assigns to your connection so that traffic can find its way back to you. Every website you visit sees it. The panel above shows yours, read from our own server rather than a third-party widget.
What can someone learn from my IP address?
Roughly where you are — usually your city or region rather than your street — and which company provides your internet. It does not reveal your name or address on its own, but your provider can connect it to your account, and that link is exactly what a subpoena or a data breach exposes.
Does a VPN change my IP address?
Yes. When connected, websites see the address of the VPN server instead of yours, shared with everyone else using that server. Your real address stays between you and your provider, and the sites you visit no longer see it at all.
Why does my IP address change sometimes?
Most home connections use dynamic addressing, so your provider reassigns you a new address periodically or when your router restarts. Mobile connections change even more often. A changing address is not the same as a private one — your provider still knows which address was yours at any moment.
Is my IP address the same as my location?
Not exactly. IP geolocation is an estimate based on databases that map address ranges to places, and it is often accurate to the city but frequently wrong about anything finer. Your browser can reveal your location far more precisely, which is a separate permission you control.
What else identifies me besides my IP?
Considerably more than most people expect. Your browser fingerprint — timezone, screen, fonts, graphics hardware — is often unique and survives changing your IP entirely. Our privacy check shows you the full picture, including the parts a VPN does not fix.

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