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I work for IPinfo. What is the context mentioning us here? I'm unsure if graphene uses our data. We process trillions of requests at the moment. I have no clue which services or software even use our data, let alone identifying individual IP addresses.

Is making a connection to our API a cause for concern? If that is the case, we welcome OSS projects to user our local IP databases, which includes our free IPinfo Lite database that we primarily designed for firewall and privacy applications.

>>reinco+(OP)
I think they were talking about the Netguard app (not a part of GrapheneOS or anything) using IPinfo.

GrapheneOS definitely doesn't use it. It doesn't contact any third-party APIs. Everything is well documented: https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections

>>Androm+WC1
Thank you for sharing the info.

In both cases, they could opt to download our database locally and use it through their own API system.

We sponsor the AlmaLinux Foundation through a data sponsorship for their mirroring system: https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-07-mirrors-1-to-400/

But since privacy is a major concern for them, they should just use our IP-to-country database and host an API themselves on top of it: https://ipinfo.io/lite

We are happy to support and be part of any software that want to use our data.

>>reinco+rJ3
I was able to confirm that NetGuard actually uses the IPinfo API. See https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/FAQ.md#:~:text=... and https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/31652781967a70efaee2eb....

I agree that it would be a more privacy-friendly solution for them to host their own API, but that got me thinking, wouldn't it be possible to just let users download the IPinfo data and use it locally? Does IPinfo offer database downloads? That's also how the Server-Status Firefox extension (https://github.com/tdulcet/Server-Status) works (but it doesn't use IPinfo). Also asking for potential personal use: How does the quality of IPinfo data compare to MaxMind, DB-IP, etc?

>>Androm+lb4
Apologies for the late response. It's awesome to see they're using our data. I did not know that.

> wouldn't it be possible to just let users download the IPinfo data and use it locally? Does IPinfo offer database downloads?

Of course, you can download our free IP database right now: IPinfo Lite

https://ipinfo.io/lite

> Also asking for potential personal use: How does the quality of IPinfo data compare to MaxMind, DB-IP, etc?

We are miles ahead of everyone in terms of accuracy. Currently, we have 1,100+ PoPs across the world running active measurements. While traditional IP geolocation services are no much more than ASN/ISP reported data aggregation and parsing services. Our priority above all is accuracy and at this moment we are likely the industry leader for that.

If you have the time, go through some of our posts in our community and you will be surprised how good our data is right now. I will share my recent favorite one:

https://community.ipinfo.io/t/the-north-korean-gamers-on-ste...

>>reinco+Zzd
Sorry, I don't check HN daily either, so I'm late too. But thanks a lot for your response, and for the link.