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It only “leaks” your ip if you are trying to use webrtc features with a vpn, otherwise web rtc is perfectly fine to use without concern for most people.


Interesting! That's not how I read the ublock origin docs:

"Keep in mind that this feature is to prevent leakage of your non-internet-facing IP adresses. The purpose of this feature is not to hide your current internet-facing IP address -- so be cautious to not misinterpret the results of some WebRTC-local-IP-address-leakage tests found online."

That said, my Firefox 91 and Safari don't leak local IPs regardless of the ublock setting.

Warrants more investigation perhaps.


I believe newer versions of WebRTC use mdns to mask local IPs:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=878465


Great find! Here's the IETF draft [1], submitted by Apple (which would explain why I'm not seeing leaks on Safari)

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-mdns-ice-candida...




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