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Ublock Origin now Prevents WebRTC from leaking the local IP addresses

Last updated on June 26, 2015 By Venkat

New Privacy setting added to Ublock stops WebRTC from revealing local IP addresses of VPN users. A security flaw in WebRTC leaks local IP addresses of users, even those using VPNs to websites from Firefox and Chrome browsers on Windows. Since disabling WebRTC stops apps and services from running, it is not recommended to do that, till now no adblocker prevented this from happening (?).

Ublock Origin extension Prevents the Leak of IP Addresses through WebRTC

Ublock Origin’s current dev version 0.9.9.3 has a Privacy option to stop this from happening. This version soon will be available on AMO and Chrome Web store when reaches stable stage.

All you need to do is, install this version of extension in Chrome or Firefox browser, visit Settings, under Privacy enable, ‘Prevent WebRTC from leaking the local IP address’.

ublock Origin WebRTC IP address leak related privacy setting

We’ve tested this extension on Chrome Canary and Firefox 39 beta, and testing site https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/ hasn’t shown the local IP address assigned by the ISP to computer, but https://ipleak.net/ site did.

test site

Note: Developer says this version works for Chromium-based browsers only on version 42+.

Here is that dev.version download link.

Filed Under: News, security Tagged With: ublock origin, WebRTC

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