Yes. Doesn’t mean you have to save my ip address that I used.
Who the fuck said anything about saving an IP?
Or even the general location I used it from even if it will increase security.
IP lookups are not "saving your location".
Shrug. What does that means? You can control the info logged in server and also if you choose to keep it or classify it.
No... Not at all. If you reach out to my server, my server has to know where to send the data back to. Part of this process can be an IP lookup that actually identifies where your ASN is based out of. There is no way around this... the request MUST have IP information. Nobody said shit about logging anything. And logging IPs is not required to do anything that I've mentioned.
Sigh! now you are arguing on definition of tracking.
No... I'm arguing pedantic shit. I'm telling you what actually happens and what the actual definition is.
Edit: To the point. I actually do IP lookups to BLOCK specific countries in my router. Using a database like maxmind you can get a general idea of location without knowing anything specific at all. So it goes 1 step further to run a check on if your current ASN is even remotely close to your known location. If not, fire off email. nothing about this requires any logging or outside information than what you already gave the company in this case. Other fields use these mechanisms that are well regulated and nobody else except for you calls this "tracking".