ExamineIP is a one-person project. This page explains how the guides and tools get made, including the parts a site like this usually keeps quiet about. The About page covers who runs the site and exactly where your data goes when you use each tool.
Where AI is used
Guides, courses and tool code are drafted with AI assistance. I decide what gets covered and what goes live, and facts are checked against original sources before publishing. The free courses and the books say the same thing in their listings. AI drafting makes fast, confident mistakes, which is why the rules below exist.
How facts are sourced
- Original sources first. Figures and legal claims come from the report, court filing, regulator or vendor documentation where they were first published, and those sources are linked where a claim depends on them.
- Allegations stay allegations. A lawsuit or an accusation is described as one until a court or the company says otherwise.
- Dates matter. Security facts go out of date, so pages that depend on current information say when they were last checked.
No invented testing
You won’t find “we tested 47 VPNs” on this site, or pass rates, speed percentages or “#1 rated” badges. If a claim would need testing that wasn’t done, the page gives you a way to check it yourself instead, usually with the free tools here and inside a product’s refund window.
How the tools are checked
In September 2026 every tool was audited, and the ones giving wrong or guessed answers were rebuilt. Several now have automated tests against reference data from an independent source: the subnet and IPv6 logic, for example, is compared against Python’s standard ipaddress library. Some of that code and its tests are public on GitHub, so you can read how a result is produced.
A tool should say what it can’t measure. The VPN Leak Test, for instance, states that it does not test for DNS leaks, because a browser page can’t do that reliably on its own. When a check can’t be completed, the tool reports that it wasn’t measured, not that everything is fine.
How the site earns money
The tools are free and need no account. The site earns from affiliate links and from books sold on Amazon, and accepts voluntary donations. Affiliate links are marked and go through a redirect on this site, so you can spot them. A partner can’t pay for a recommendation, a tool result or the removal of a criticism. Every program is listed in the affiliate disclosure.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, out of date or broken, email contact@examineip.com and include the page and what you found. Mistakes get fixed in the page itself, and a correction that changes a page’s main conclusion is noted on that page.