Unable to Turn off WebRTC IP Broadcasting
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This issue is still persistent.i have unticked the setting but upon restart it is checked again.
2 years and still no resolution..............?
How many other settings are not being honoured i wonder or is this just a interbrowser issue.?
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@Priest72
Hi, the problem is nobody can reproduce it except the OP and you.
I guess it is an extension, I run 3:
PrivacyBadger
AutoplayStopper
Formum ModCheers, mib
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@Priest72 said in Unable to Turn off WebRTC IP Broadcasting:
2 years and still no resolution..............?
Just because a problem recurs at some distant point in the future, doesn't mean that it wasn't resolved in the interim. The recurrence could very well be a regression instead of an unresolved issue.
In this case, however, it's not clear that there is an issue in Vivaldi. Have you tested to narrow down the cause?
I just tested and I cannot reproduce the issue. So there is something different about your system that is making it happen for you.
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I do have ublock origin extension installed and it does have a webrtc block function so my train of thought is that ubo has taken precedence maybe.
sorry to have wasted time with this as my reply is an afterthought.
my initial post was posted with no malice and i apologise again. -
Many people have made this OP complaint over the years, before later learning it was an extension conflict.
My whinge is different. I don't have any hassles with the setting obeying me [ie, staying disabled] during the life of each Snapshot & Stable version. It boils my billygoat however that each version update the damn setting gets re-enabled, in complete contravention of my obvious preference. With occasional minor/one-off exceptions none of my other settings gets overriden during updates... but this one does. Pls Devs - stop doing this.
EDIT:
Holy cow, i was wrong. Tonight by accident i found that 3.3.2001.3 IS re-enabling this accursed setting with every V-SS relaunch. Don't understand how i missed this before. Aggravating bigly! -
@Steffie said in Unable to Turn off WebRTC IP Broadcasting:
each version update the damn setting gets re-enabled
Thanks for the heads-up!
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In the preferences under Privacy, "Broadcast IP for best webRTC performance" is listed under "Do Not Track". Is that not a contradiction in terms?
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@Streptococcus said in Unable to Turn off WebRTC IP Broadcasting:
In the preferences under Privacy, "Broadcast IP for best webRTC performance" is listed under "Do Not Track". Is that not a contradiction in terms?
Disabling the option will reduce your exposure to tracking. If you don't want to be tracked, you go to that section to find the relevant settings. Seems legit to me.
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But the other settings in that section have to be turned on to prevent tracking, and this one has to be turned off.
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@Streptococcus said in Unable to Turn off WebRTC IP Broadcasting:
But the other settings in that section have to be turned on to prevent tracking, and this one has to be turned off.
That doesn't make it a contradiction. It's still an option you configure to reduce your exposure to tracking. Whether it's a boolean on/off, a radio or dropdown selection picking one item from a list, a text field taking user input, a slider or some other control, it's still where one goes to configure the settings relevant to their exposure to tracking. None of them "prevent" tracking, they change the browser behavior to increase or decrease one's exposure to tracking. "Do not track" is just a historical artifact in that its what the first option is actually called and used to be the only setting offered by browsers, so users may be seeking that exact phrase for options related to tracking.
If anything, "Block Ads on Abusive Sites", the second option, is the one that is least relevant to the title of that group of options.
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I was having this issue too and I just found out ScriptSafe extension was causing it. Setting its WebRTC Protection setting to "Protect Local and Private IP's" solved it for me.
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