Hello friends! How can I completely disable writing IP addresses to the database? Today, IP storage has no benefit (many people use VPNs). However, there are legal risks associated with the processing of personal data and GDPR requirements. I would be grateful for technical advice on how to disabl…

Unfortunately, you can’t do this easily. Actually those IP addresses on database are not used anywhere in Ghost at all. We need a change on Ghost that only stores the data Ghost reads from geolocation column (which are country, country_code and region), and drop all other information. I would like …

I opened an issue on Github to raise this to the attention of Ghost development team: Drop storing member IP addresses and coordinates on DB opened 09:45AM - 10 Feb 26 UTC (UTC) [image] muratcor…

Thank you, muratcorlu . [image] muratcorlu: We need a change on Ghost that only stores the data Ghost reads from geolocation column (which are country, country_code and region), and drop all other information. I would like to drop ALL info with IP, including country, country_code and region. …

Knowing the country and region will not help in solving the problem of spam registrations. You wrote about it yourself in the mentioned topic. All spam comes from fake addresses. The IP address may point to Turkey, and the actual source of spam may be in the United States. And vice versa. There are…

[image] Maximus: I think it’s technically not difficult to do this, we just need to change the code that is responsible for writing the IP address to the sql-file. Murat has opened an issue for this on Github. I have communicated with the Ghost team, who gave the go-ahead for a PR. However, …

Thank you, Jannis! I’ll be looking forward to it.

How can I disable the collection of IP addresses in the database?

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muratcorlu February 10, 2026, 10:11pm 5

I don’t think knowing country of the member imposes any obligations to the site owner. And I think that level information is useful, especially in the days we are fighting with signup spam. If we drop other unnecessary information, I think it will be more than enough for now.

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How can I disable the collection of IP addresses in the database?

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