# Problematic IP address fields

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/problematic-ip-address-fields/83785
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** gdpr, privacy
**Created:** [March 25, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problematic-ip-address-fields/83785 "2018-03-25T07:06:34Z")
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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problematic-ip-address-fields/83785/30 "2018-05-22T19:14:19Z")

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Yeah, I was starting to work on that and it’s a bit tricky due to all the various ways that topic view data is used for logged-in users! And topic views are interesting in that only the first time a user or IP sees a topic is counted right now - it doesn’t reset daily like some of the other data.

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