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When a user access any website of content providers online, they implicitly agree to the terms of service of that provider. When using Peer5, the terms of service includes a language about public IP temporarily visible to other users.

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This line of thinking makes me feel uncomfortable. That you can secretly give away data about me and which videos I watch because of some text in your TOS.

I also doubt it would hold in court. TOS have a very restricted applicability. You can not use them to restrict people's rights in unexpected ways.

Why not use VPN if you feel that uncomfortable? That's what it's designed for to hide your real IP.

An IP address is not PII. Linking it to viewed videos is still not PII. Good luck in court.

True in the US, not true in the EU. There is a reason Google Analytics has a switch to throw a few bits of an IP away, and it surely isn't because Google hates data.

Given that they are selling a CDN, and thus likely want to sell to globally operating customers, that might become relevant relatively quickly.

I can tell you at the BBC it was 100% considered PII.

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