{"id":1243,"date":"2015-12-20T16:45:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2015-12-20T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:49:28","slug":"stop-webrtc-ip-address-leaks-in-firefox-vpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"Stop webRTC IP address leaks in Firefox (VPN)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re using a VPN there is a good chance that your real IP address could be being leaked by your browser. Most browsers are affected but Firefox is the easiest to “fix”<\/p>\n

To check, visit https:\/\/ipleak.net\/<\/a> If your real IP address or that of your ISP are shown then you are not browsing anonymously.<\/p>\n

Open Firefox and in the address bar type about:config<\/p>\n

Search for media.peerconnection.enabled and change it to disabled<\/p>\n

Now check https:\/\/ipleak.net\/<\/a> and you should be safe to browse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re using a VPN there is a good chance that your real IP address could be being leaked by your browser. Most browsers are affected but Firefox is the easiest to “fix” To check, visit https:\/\/ipleak.net\/ If your real IP address or that of your ISP are shown then you are not browsing anonymously. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,170,17],"tags":[159,245,293,284,292],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-security","category-windows","tag-firefox","tag-ip-address","tag-leak","tag-vpn","tag-webrtc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}