Oh I had to do that when I first started testing the built in VPN in didn't work at all until I turned DNS over HTTPS off I guess having it on stopped FireFox sending the dns requests over the VPN and I've not turned it back on since.
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Unistalled FireFox, deleted the folders it left behind, downloaded the msi installer, used the msi to re install FireFox, logged in to sync favourites etc, had to use about:config to enable the VPN again.
And after all that if I choose a different VPN location e.g. France when I run the browser leaks test it still says I'm in the USA and using Fastly inc in the Netherlands for DNS.
So that was a waste of time...
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And after all that if I choose a different VPN location e.g. France when I run the browser leaks test it still says I'm in the USA and using Fastly inc in the Netherlands for DNS.
So that was a waste of time...
My IP Address
The main tools for checking IP address privacy. Showing Your IP Address, Reverse IP Lookup, Hostname, and HTTP Request Headers, Your Country, State, City, ISP/ASN, and Local Lime, Whois Lookup, TCP/IP OS fingerprinting, WebRTC Leak Test, DNS Leak Test, and IPv6 Leak Test.
I just tried it and browserleaks said I was in the US, but ipleak.net and whatismyipaddress.com said I was in France. Seems like it works fine, browserleaks just gets the IP location wrong.Unistalled FireFox, deleted the folders it left behind, downloaded the msi installer, used the msi to re install FireFox, logged in to sync favourites etc, had to use about:config to enable the VPN again.
And after all that if I choose a different VPN location e.g. France when I run the browser leaks test it still says I'm in the USA and using Fastly inc in the Netherlands for DNS.
So that was a waste of time...
My IP Address
The main tools for checking IP address privacy. Showing Your IP Address, Reverse IP Lookup, Hostname, and HTTP Request Headers, Your Country, State, City, ISP/ASN, and Local Lime, Whois Lookup, TCP/IP OS fingerprinting, WebRTC Leak Test, DNS Leak Test, and IPv6 Leak Test.
"ipleak.net and whatismyipaddress.com" - they both say I'm in london...
Browserleaks.com still says I'm in the USA
https://tools.keycdn.com/geo = London
https://ip-lookup.net/tools/ip-leak-test = USA
Facebook login from new location notifications kept saying I was in London...
a speed test at fast.com says the client is in London...
VPN is set to France...
I'm only using it for Facebook but I trust Firefox VPN as much as a chocolate tea pot
You can't trust any browser VPN to never leak your IP address, you need a proper VPN with an advanced killswitch.
Nothing anyone does online is private even if there is such a thing as a private trusted no logging vpn service they can still finger print your device hardware and OS and thats if something like webrtc isnt leaking your real ip anyway.
If I worked for a government agency thats task was to monitor peoples online activity to stop them doing bad things I'd setup a VPN service and tell everyone that it doesn't log anything...
Tin foil hat off I only use Firefox VPN because Meta annoyed me by saying I either have to pay or accept tracking cookies, they blocked me from logging on until I made a choice...
So I stopped using Facebook but it was useful to keep in touch with a few people so now I just use it in a private browser window with Firefox vpn which makes it harder but not impossible for them to show me targeted adverts.
It seems Firefox's built in VPN is working for some people but its doing some weird **** when I run diffferent ipleak/geolocation tests and I haven't a clue as to why, its not important in my use case I just find it puzzling but not enough to spend a lot of time analysing the issue.
