Nostr doesn't scale, so it made the choice to (usually) host image/video content externally, rather than in the Nostr protocol itself. That's why random people can collect your IP addresses.
If Nostr was a well designed, scalable, decentralized protocol, this wouldn't be an issue. But they're papering over their centralization and scaling problems by hosting big media externally, and relying on the fact that notes are usually small and servers are fast.
What would be your suggestion then to hide the origin of "big" media like images or videos?
Proxy them via random or many other clients? Host them on Usenet?
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Seems like a setting in clients to use proxy.whatever.com for img/vid uploads would work?
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Yes, centralized services like imgchest, ibb, imgur or even Twitter/Reddit can provide this already.
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