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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2191560, member: 27832&quot;]If they&#039;re all connecting via your home wireless router, the outside world sees them all as having the same IP address.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you use your phone with cellular data, it&#039;ll show up as a different IP address. But if you <i>even once</i> let your phone connect through your home WiFi and visit eBay, they can associate the ID you use with your home IP.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I have no idea if that&#039;s what eBay is <i>actually</i> doing, and it&#039;s not that simple anyhow -- for one thing, the IP address through which your router talks to the rest of the Internet can change periodically. My point, though, is that using different devices on the same home network doesn&#039;t necessarily protect you from this kind of scrutiny.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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