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> How about the security issue with WebRTC where the browser leaks the IP address

Yes, even if the user is behind a VPN, WebRTC will expose their ISP-given public IP. Luckily Firefox allows WebRTC to be disabled. Recently they added a new setting that alleviates that leak for the majority of VPN users, while allowing WebRTC to still be enabled. Would be awesome if Chrome allowed WebRTC to be disabled as well.



Please read https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/discuss-webrtc/_5hL0...

The new Chrome behavior should alleviate the need to disable. Basically, the behavior that caused the concern has been changed significantly.


That's a great change!


Forgive my lack of networking knowledge, but why aren't the UDP packets also sent over the VPN?


If the information in the packets contains your original IP address it doesn't matter how the packet is routed in terms of privacy.


The browser doesn't know you're behind a VPN or more generically it doesn't know your public IP address.




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