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Thanks very much for your reply. I've been trying to enable the preference in Google Chrome Canary on Mac OSX. However, I haven't been able to successfully block the IP leak - I suspect because I haven't configured it correctly. I had to manually create the file "/Library/Google/Google Chrome Master Preferences" and add the setting you suggested. I then reinstalled Chrome Canary and tested but no effect. I also tried editing the user preferences file in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome\ Canary/Default/Preference but that seems to be overwritten by the browser. How should I be configuring this preference? Thanks again.

I agree that WebRTC is very powerful and makes peer-to-peer communication from browsers easily accessible for developers. And I also love what it does. However, the issue raised in the post is seen from the point of view of the user. Convenience for the developer probably won't be a concern to a user who is concerned about IP leakage. Yes, the WebRTC API is still being standardised so perhaps this issue will be addressed in future

There is a permission request to access the camera but this is triggered by a call to getUserMedia(). This would be done if setting up a peer connection to transmit voice and/or video. However, if you want to set up a WebRTC data channel no such prompt occurs.