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> But closer inspection showed that its use was to get user's IP address for better fingerprinting.

Maybe that's why it fell to the wayside: scripts are no longer allowed to get the local IP address (taking with it the most useful aspect of WebRTC, true serverless p2p without internet[1]).

[1] I'm not saying that I disagree with the decision, but still sad that we can't have nice things :(

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