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Recent reports from our users have brought to light a security hole that can reveal your IP address to websites through WebRTC. WebRTC was originally developed to aid certain types of connections between browsers without the need for an additional plugin. The ‘RTC’ in WebRTC stands for Real-Time-Communication, and the API directory is used for voice calls, video chats, and p2p file sharing. Suspicions that WebRTC could be used to discover a user’s local IP, even under the presence of a VPN, have been around since 2013. Since WebRTC uses javascript requests to get your IP address, users of NoScript or similar services will not leak their IP addresses. If you are using a VPN or a Proxy and you would like to test this WebRTC Local IP leak, click here. source: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/8204/how-to-stop-webrtc-local-ip-address-leaks-on-google-chrome-and-mozilla-firefox-while-using-private-i Mozilla Firefox users can actually turn off the default WebRTC functionality directly in Firefox settings by typing ‘about:config’ into the search bar and browsing to the ‘media.peerconnection.enabled’ option and setting it to FALSE. Users of Canary, Nightly, and Bowser are also vulnerable to this IP leak. However, the local IP address leak should not affect Internet Explorer or Safari users unless they have manually added WebRTC themselves.