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Sunday, August 02, 2026

The link below is to a website that analyzes what it can obtain from your browser, should you decide to click on it. The link I put above is a different link to allow you decide whether or not you might want to click on a probing link.

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OK, here is the operative link ...

ipleak.net

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-02 12:31 AM | Reply

Here is what ipleak says about me this evening ...

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This is the kind of information that all the sites you visit, as well as their advertisers and any embedded widget, can see and collect about you.

Your IP addresses
[redacted]

United States
United States - Massachusetts
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

No forwarded IP detected. If you are using a proxy, it's a transparent proxy.
[redacted}
United States
United States - Connecticut
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
No forwarded IP detected. If you are using a proxy, it's a transparent proxy.

Browser default: IPv6 (165 ms)
Fallback: IPv4 (413 ms)

Your IP addresses - WebRTC detection
No leak, RTCPeerConnection not available.

DNS Address - 0 servers detected, 91 tests

If you are now connected to a VPN and between the detected DNS you see your ISP DNS, then your system is leaking DNS requests

Torrent Address detection
Activate
Geolocation map (Google Map) based on browser
Activate
(may prompt a user permission on the browser)

IP Address details
IP: [redacted]
ISP: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
AirVPN: no No
ASN: 7922
Country: United States United States (US)
Region: Connecticut (CT)
City: Danbury
Metro (US-Only): 501
Time Zone: America/New_York
Latitude & Longitude: 41.3908 , -73.4483
Geolocation map (Google Map) based on IP Address
Activate
Accuracy Radius: 5 KM
Last data update: Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:31:26 +0000

Detected information

Your User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64;

What document you can accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml;q=0.9, */*;q=0.8
What language you can accept: en-US, en;q=0.9
What encoding you can accept: gzip, deflate, br, zstd

System information
(your browser, your language, your operating system, etc)
Platform: Linux x86_64

Cookie enabled: true

Java enabled: false

Taint enabled: false

Online: true
Screen information
(your display hardware)
Your screen: ...



The list goes on.

It is interesting to see all the quite specific data (e.g., sceen resolution) that may be availble to all the websites you visit.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-02 12:40 AM | Reply

@#1 ... If you are using a proxy, it's a transparent proxy. ...

Yeah, that is how I have my HTTP proxy configured.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-02 12:43 AM | Reply

@#3 ... Browser default: IPv6 (165 ms)
Fallback: IPv4 (413 ms) ...

Yeah, and the browser here defaults to using IPv6, with a fallback to IPv4.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-02 02:57 AM | Reply

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