Practical explanations and diagnostic steps for IP reputation, VPN and proxy risks, DNS, WebRTC, IPv6 and safer internet connections.
Seeing a private, local-range address in a WebRTC candidate list is normal and not a public exposure — those addresses only mean anything on your own local network, and modern browsers mask them further with mDNS.
AAAA records handle IPv6 name resolution, but the transport carrying the DNS query and the actual connectivity of the answer it returns are separate concerns worth checking independently.
Incognito mode does not hide your IP address — its real, useful protections are local: no saved history, cookies, or form data after the session ends, not network-level anonymity.
Fraud teams use browser fingerprinting to link related sessions and flag anomalies — balancing real detection value against instability, accessibility concerns, and the false positives that come with any fingerprinting method.