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[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

While everyone’s at it, you may want to check for leaks with Mullvad VPN’s service, it picked up a DNS leak for me that got past a few other sites:

edit: also ipleak.net, which tests a few other things, like torrent ips

[–] LostXOR@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Huh, it says I'm leaking DNS servers and WebRTC IPs, but I don't have secure DNS enabled, and I'm not really sure why WebRTC leaking my IP is a problem considering I'm already "leaking" my IP just by visiting a website.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In my case I had reset a device and didn’t disable IPv6. Once I fixed that the bottom two tests still say I’m “leaking”, but all three show only one IP each, for my VPN’s servers (maybe different IPs, but one for each.)

If I were actually leaking, IPs shown would be for a local DNS, or my residence, etc.