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pmontra on July 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The New York Times uses WebRTC to gather local IP ...

I went there with Firefox without ublock and saw my public and local addresses (docker0, eth0 and virbr0 - VirtualBox). I installed Disable WebRTC https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/happy-bonobo-... and all the addresses disappeared.

NoScript mitigates the problem because WebRTC won't work with scripts blocked but I'll still have to disable the plugin to make it work on legitimate sites. It's annoying and I'd prefer a browser permission popup along the lines of what has been suggested in other posts here.

near on July 16, 2015 [–]

Going to about:config and setting media.peerconnection.enabled to false seems to work, without the need for an extension.

Now to find out how many sites break in fun and exciting ways for having done this ;)

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