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Home IP isn't reliable, there are much better ways of fingerprinting you. It's more device based. People move around.
It's also fair to point out that your browser may not know your external IP; if you're behind a NAT, like a home LAN, your computer probably thinks its IP is the LAN IP, an address shared by millions of computers the world over. If you're using a VPN, your external IP (which JavaScript could get) is the IP of the exit node - an IP shared with possibly dozens of other people. Of you're not using a VPN, well... that's on you. That's privacy 101.
This. It's not so much your IP address that identifies you; it's your browser fingerprint
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/