VPN does not hide my location
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A Former User last edited by
I did try the ipleak site and I see some IP addresses and my true home location but I'm not sure how to interpret the data.
I know that WebRTC is set to "Disable non-proxied UDP". -
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A Former User last edited by
No, it's not the IP address on the VPN icon, it must be my real address.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
Strange.
What about https://whoer.net/ ? It also shows your real IP even with the VPN on?
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A Former User last edited by
Yes, real IP address.
And it shows that WebRTC is enabled although WebRTC is set to "Disable non-proxied UDP". -
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A Former User last edited by
OK, tried with optimal location, same result.
Tried with Europe, located in the Netherlands.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
And your real IP appears in all the situations?
As a last test, does https://whatismyipaddress.com/ shows your real IP or the VPN one?
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blackbird71 last edited by blackbird71@esebm said in VPN does not hide my location:
OK, tried with optimal location, same result.
Tried with Europe, located in the Netherlands.
In both cases WebRTC shows enabled.At the https://whoer.net/ site, the WebRTC indicator itself should show 'enabled' since most of Opera's WebRTC code remains functional even if the non-proxied UDP is disabled... that disabling only removes WebRTC user IP reporting functionality. If you enable Opera's WebRTC non-proxied UDP functionality in the WebRTC settings, you'll see your true IP listed beneath the whoer site's WebRTC indicator. When you disable Opera's non-proxied UDP, your IP should disappear from beneath the site's WebRTC indicator and should be replaced with a "N/A" entry.
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A Former User last edited by
OK,
I did try all 3 links that you guys provided, locations set to Americas:
https://whatismyipaddress.com shows my location in Venezuela, ads in the cyrillic language.
https://whoer.net shows my location somewhere in Europe
https://ipleak.net also shows Europe (Vaduz)
At least none of the above does show my true location.
Go figure!
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blackbird71 last edited by
@esebm Part of the problem lies in the IP lookup-lists being used by sites, including the IP leakage test sites. As you may have seen at the ipleak site for all those DNS servers, there may be different locations listed in various places for a particular IP, including that of a VPN. These reverse IP look-ups are notorious for missing the mark. With my non-VPN IP (part of an IP block used for services by my ISP), the DNS servers have my location shown as everywhere from Minnesota to Kentucky, though I'm actually in Indiana.
I'm not sure what you mean for the whatismyipaddress site regarding ads in cyrillic, unless you're referring to the ads on that site itself. If so, they may be simply assuming you're using a VPN from Eastern Europe based on a misinterpretation of who-is information... I've seen a couple of posts in these forums indicating similar cyrillic-language behavior for users in different places of the world when visiting any number of websites, never with a clear explanation of why cyrillic pops up. I've tended to assume it has something to do with (mis?)interpretation about the who-is physical location or registration information published for the VPN's server and IP.
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A Former User last edited by
blackbird, thanks for the detailed explanation, I really appreciate the input from all you guys.
What I still don't understand is why my home town popped up yesterday and what I can do to prevent any kind of leakage. -
blackbird71 last edited by
@esebm said in VPN does not hide my location:
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What I still don't understand is why my home town popped up yesterday and what I can do to prevent any kind of leakage.If you've changed nothing at your end, it's possible that something temporarily malfunctioned in either your Opera installation or Opera's VPN server which caused the traffic to not route properly thru the VPN. If you were in a censored country, it might also be possible that there was some man-in-the-middle interception going on by the ISP or national firewall, but that certainly isn't likely to be the case at a location in the Lone Star State.
Just to be on the safe side, I'd bookmark one or several of the leakage-test sites and retest with the VPN from time to time to see if the problem recurs (and if so, with what periodicity).
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A Former User last edited by
Just checked the leakage test sites and all 3 of them show my hometown and my real IP address. VPN is on, set to Europe.
Changed the setting to the Americas, same thing.
