Re:Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
by gorhill on Friday October 02, 2015 @01:10PM
(#10319809)
> I was under the impression that the local IP leak was an unintended side-effect of webRTC, not a 'required component'
Same here. My understanding is that the breakage of Hangout is unintended, as the original Chromium issue for the IP address leakage states[1]:
> This change causes WebRTC traffic to be forced through the same path that HTTP traffic would, i.e. the traffic follows the default route to the destination site.
In other words the purpose of the setting is strictly to prevent IP address leakage, not to prevent WebRTC from working.
Same here. My understanding is that the breakage of Hangout is unintended, as the original Chromium issue for the IP address leakage states[1]:
> This change causes WebRTC traffic to be forced through the same path that HTTP traffic would, i.e. the traffic follows the default route to the destination site.
In other words the purpose of the setting is strictly to prevent IP address leakage, not to prevent WebRTC from working.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333752#c...