It's a fair point. I believe that right now giving time and spending it with us on IRC is the best kind of donation that can be done if one is able to program. Money helps and is always welcome to support the hosting fees.
Yeah it was a nice patch, but IIRC in the current version it doesn't work on Windows. Maybe someone will take it on in the future.
We're working on https://code.wildfiregames.com/D3184 to make it harder to get IPs it won't solve everything of course, but it might make things a little better. There is also