Clicking on a website that runs google javascript or images does the same thing.

When google gets information, they sell it to the open market and it's distributed to every nation. Google is functioning as a spy network for the highest bidder through data aggregators.

1. https://bit.ly/2lE5Pnn - link shortener - never know what you are going to get. might be obvious, but not exact to the original.
2. IP - 216.218.239.22 - startpage.com - not exactly dangerous, but know the IP first.
3. startpage.com and 216.218.239.22 are the same thing for the most part. startpage.com is basically 218.218.239.22 and startpage.com is used as top level to make it easier to remember. Never know what link you are going to get though. Trackers these days especially.

If you must go to a site for whatever reason and don't know for sure. I recommend

1. VPN
2. Privacy Badger
3. Ghostery
4. Ublock Origin
5. NO SCRIPT - I don't use this one anymore since it's so heavy (powerful and/or works too well sometimes), but to knock out all scripts (might be sneaky somehow or clever to prevent NO Script from working properly or something like that) on a site for the most part if not all of them completely I recommend No Script. It can be a major pain to use though.

CMD - ping

If you look at the image below it might help with IP (216.218.239.22) / DNS (startpage.com). I also did google and/or bing above to as well.

https://pic8.co/sh/QaMTWj.png

just some info here for anyone that wants to read more or so into this.

Don't click !

Well that isn’t doxing becuase he gave the IP himself. It’s his as far as I can tell or at least he claims it is and I have no reason to suspect otherwise.

I believe he was testing some kind of web server.