Comment 1BCHP How to disable it

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In 2016 the WebRTC bug is still exposes user's private IP information

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How to disable it (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-04-22 04:55 (#1BCHP)

https://www.ivpn.net/knowledgebase/158/My-IP-is-being-leaked-by-WebRTC-How-do-I-disable-it.html

Firefox:
Type about:config in the browser's address bar and hit enter.
Confirm you will be careful if the prompt appears.
Search for media.peerconnection.enabled.
Double-click the preference to set it to false.

See also: https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/

Use https://ipleak.net/ to see if you are affected. VPN users should take note.

Junk Status

Marked as [Not Junk] by bryan@pipedot.org on 2016-05-06 23:02