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WebRTC Control

by Grephy

v0.3.4 Updated Aug 9, 2025 55.17KiB
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200K
Users
★ 4.49
212 reviews
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Description

WebRTC Control is an extension that brings you control over WebRTC API in your browser. The toolbar icon serves as a toggle button that enables you to quickly disable or enable the add-on (note: the icon will change color once you click on it). This addon does not a have toolbar popup UI. When WebRTC is enabled in your browser, your real IP address will be exposed to the public (even if you're using a masking service such as VPN). But preventing WebRTC leaks helps you protect your IP address. WebRTC Control add-on will also disable the following WebRTC components (see add-on options page): a. navigator.getUserMedia b. window.MediaStreamTrack c. window.RTCPeerConnection d. window.RTCSessionDescription To report bugs, please visit the extension's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/webrtc-control.html) and fill the bug report form.
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Reviews (16 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-16
Annie Apples

Hasn't worked for ages. Apparently is on all the time, but does nothing to stop 'active webRTC connections' error.

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-29
Rezwan Haque

Great Extension but always wonder, why do they need "site access"/ permissions to see my site visit!?! Please remove this permission. In your privacy practice you declared "The publisher has disclosed that it will not collect or use your data", I wonder, why the site access permission then?

★☆☆☆☆2020-07-30
Google User (M. B.)

Stopped working in Chrome!

★☆☆☆☆2019-07-23
Car na Grani

Every check on https://ipleak.net/ shows the real IP address. NO hiding at all. :(

★☆☆☆☆2018-06-19
Lee Hodsdon

It does block WebRTC as can be tested at ipleak.net. However, it interferes with some sites. For example, with WebRTC disabled, users can log into Google Voice but get stuck with an eternally spinning blue circle icon that never progresses to load the web pages to use Google Voice. This app has no whitelist. The user cannot exclude some sites from WebRTC blocking. Without a whitelist, I will remove this extension. I like the added security but as with NoScript, uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and other web security tools, there is a means of excluding some sites -- but NOT with this app. Oh, when you go to this extension's support site, enter a description and steps to reproduce, you are wasting your time. Upon clicking submit, a page shows up saying "URL not found". There is no bug reporting as professed.

★☆☆☆☆2018-03-27

document.documentElement.appendChild will inject the script as a child element of the <html> tag, which will cause some website errors.

★☆☆☆☆2017-06-30
JON Cunningham

This is not working. But Protect EXT. does

★★☆☆☆2022-02-10
Aaron Yu

Causes CPU single thread full load.

★★☆☆☆2022-01-19
Ankit

If WebRTC Control help me to prevent my ip address exposed to the public then when i enable the extention & i search what is my ip it showing me the same ip address which was without the WebRTC Control, then what is the use of WebRTC Control?

★★☆☆☆2019-07-26
Laurent Boulard

Very suspect extension. Inject javascript in every page where selecting text raise a popup for sharing. Removed it by security.

★★☆☆☆2017-11-25
Jinesh Jayakumar

I was looking for an addon to block webrtc connections because powerdevil reported for some sites "WEBRTC has active peer connections" that prevented my system from sleeping. This addon initially seemed to work but later found it didn't for all websites.

★★☆☆☆2017-10-21
Larchenko Eugene

Doesn't block Device Enumeration API, identifiable information still leaks.

★★★☆☆2021-11-17
geht dichnixan

Does its job, but after a long period of browser runtime (days) it'll eventually crash (?) and cause high CPU load. On my 3700X, the last CPU core (not thread) will be hovering between 70-90% when that happens. Toggling this extension off and back on immediately makes the CPU load settle back down so.. meh idk

★★★☆☆2021-11-13
Mustang

It works, but constantly causes high cpu load.

★★★☆☆2021-09-12
wang leowood

it actually cause the root process of chrome CPU 100% sometimes,

★★★☆☆2021-06-06
かみかつき

Good, but it looks not work on https://browserleaks.com/webrtc, still leaking IPs.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu privacy Can change privacy-related browser settings storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.3.4
Updated Aug 9, 2025
Size 55.17KiB
First Seen Mar 26, 2026