How to disable WebRTC to prevent IP leakage?

[frogboy]

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http://www.slimjet.com/blog/how-to-disable-webrtc-to-prevent-ip-leakage/

Security issue caused by the WebRTC feature


It is well known that the WebRTC feature in Chrome will leak your IP address even if you are behind a proxy server or using a VPN service. While most people who do not use proxy or VPN reveals their IP addresses to whatever web server they visit all the time, the IP address is the most easily accessible piece of information to track a website visitor. For the minimum, big companies such as Google and Facebook are using the IP addresses to analyzing your habits and behavior and send your highly-targeted ads. While most people are fine with targeted ads, there are people who don’t like to be tracked at all for whatever reason. They will choose to use either proxy or VPN service to avoid being tracked. However, in a browser which supports WebRTC, including Chrome, Slimjet and Firefox, the website owner can easily obtain the website visitor’s IP address by a simple piece of Javascript.

In addition to that, the WebRTC Media Device Enumeration API also enables the website owner to obtain a unique media device id from the user, which can be used to uniquely identify the visitor.

Read more here. http://www.slimjet.com/blog/how-to-disable-webrtc-to-prevent-ip-leakage/

 

[DoxThis]

Good post I dont have it disabled in chrome but my vpn provider does patch it