I follow all of the usual set ups, but in global it shows my external ip and the name of my isp. Is this normal? Am I putting myself out there more than I need to? Thank you for your patience. link to globe page
Thanks for your patience.
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Sign up to join this communityI follow all of the usual set ups, but in global it shows my external ip and the name of my isp. Is this normal? Am I putting myself out there more than I need to? Thank you for your patience. link to globe page
Thanks for your patience.
You are running a relay. (If this was your intention, then thank you!)
Running a relay is not private / anonymous, it is public. Your IP needs to be public, so that other relays can connect to you to build circuits. So your Tor is now part of the Tor network.
Running a relay is not to keep yourself anonymous. It is to help others stay anonymous.
If this was not your intention, you should edit or comment to your post to explain what you were trying to do (just browse through Tor, browse .onion sites, setup a Tor proxy for your network to use, ...).