I know that a lot of VPN users have it as a homepage to their browser, that is why I wanted to publish this warning.

You can replace it with:

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    5 hours ago

    For us Linux users (BTW), this wtfismyip script just dumps a text string. Just save it to /usr/local/bin or some other location in your path and make it executable, and install the lynx text www browser if you don’t have it installed already.

    There are a lot of ways to do this, but this works and I’m lazy…

    root@tux:~# cat $(which wtfismyip)
    #!/bin/bash
    
    printf "%s\n" "Your fucking IP address is $(lynx -dump -nolist http://wtfismyip.com/text)."
    
    root@tux:~# wtfismyip
    Your fucking IP address is 13.107.226.41.