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I disagree, I trust WebRTC enough for camera and screen access, the one real issue might be, it exposes your local ip
by mido22 10y ago
I disagree, I trust WebRTC enough for camera and screen access, the one real issue might be, it exposes your local ip
- Noseshine 10y agoIt seems uBlock Origin has a setting (right on the main settings page) that can prevent the local IP to be leaked: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Prevent-WebRTC-from-leaking-local-IP-address https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Prevent-WebRTC-from-l... You can test it here: https://browserleaks.com/webrtc https://browserleaks.com/webrtc I tried that test page with the mentioned setting 1) enabled and 2) disabled. I did not see my local IP on 1), I did get see it reported with 2) - so it seems the block works. NOTE: Whether uBlock Origin was enabled for the specific page did not matter, the WebRTC block setting seems to be global and independent of whether the extension blocks anything else on the site.