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I am using a Pixel 2 with Android 10 and the latest security update installed as well as browsers Chrome and Brave. I have discovered that the latest version of PIA's VPN app leaks your IPv6 address to Google's search results page. The page located me down to the cardinal direction of town I live in. It said it got my location from my internet address. I checked with ipchicken.com and I had the correct address.

 

I checked the settings of the PIA app and there is one called "Aggressive IPv6 blocking" and says it's required for Android version below 5. I turned this on and I got the correct location for the VPN server I was connected to in the results page so that tells me Google was using my IPv6 address.

 

PIA advertises having built in IPv6 leak protection that's always on and this has never happened to me in the 1.5 years I've been using it so something has changed recently.

 

I e-mailed PIA about it but they seem satisfied that enabling aggressive IPv6 blocking fixed my issue and brushed me away despite an untold number of users who think their IPv6 address is safe with that setting off which implies it's only needed for versions of Android below 5

 

I checked both Chrome and Brave and both have me the same result. How does it look for y'all?

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hmm I will need to look into this, for my own interests, I have been using PIA for over 5 years now with no issue.

Can you share your findings?, leave out any private info of course.

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I'm actually gonna try IPVanish right now, I'll post back with the results ASAP.

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It looks like IPVanish have their DNS servers set to not use IPv6 at all. The IP Address in the screenshot is from IPVanish, its not my real address.

 

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There. I just did this a few minutes ago and it's still leaking my IPv6 address without aggressive IPv6 blocking.

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