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Cake day: December 9th, 2025

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  • https://reddthat.com/post/59164025

    WebRTC isn’t magic. WebRTC does not bypass a VPN, nor is it the only–or even most common–way that software on your phone, Android or otherwise, can exfiltrate potentially sensitive information, intentionally or unintentionally. The way WebRTC on your phone might leak an IP is that during ICE, which is used by more than just WebRTC, the phone’s local IP addresses may be sent, and IPv6 addresses on your WiFi or cell connection may be globally unique. IPv4 local addresses will almost certainly be meaningless, private addresses due to IPv4 address space exhaustion, and any non-local address will be from your VPN gateway.

    You cannot block ICE per app or system wide because it is not a system facility, and the permissions required to implement it on Android are not very specific.

    I think what @i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de meant is block connections without vpn is enough. though I’m not quite sure















  • Microsoft is also constantly changing how stuff works, intertwining stuff so you can’t fully remove without breaking functionality. You used to get media expansion packs (stuff like av1, avif and webp support) through updates or you could download them from their site or use a Powershell command to install them, now you are forced to do it through the MS Store, and guess what happens if you uninstall the MS Store? (at least, a few months ago when I got a new Win11 install, removing MS Store removed the packages). Probably a lot of Edge removing tools are broken by now too, if you watch your network you gonna see Microsoft Edge WebView 2 calling tons of domains all the time, and if you remove it you kill your internet connection entirely (you can, however, block it on the firewall. It used to be just one service, but with some recent update it’s four different services you have to block now).

    https://github.com/ShadowWhisperer/Remove-MS-Edge This still works for me.