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why is the local ip considered private information?

99% of people are going to be in 192.168.1.0/24 or 10.1.1.0/24. so it only takes 508 guesses.... not to mention that everyone is 127.0.0.1.

Local IP will remain consistent across sessions and so can be used to identify you as certain device at a given public IP.

They also see my IPv6 address and all of that make fingerprinting more accurate. Real world example https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/

A site can very reliably identify you (across browsers, even) if it knows your public and private IP addresses. Your public IP address identifies which organization or network you're in and your private IP address identifies which machine within that organization or network you are using.

90% of the time I use IPv6. where I just have a global IP on every device. Identifies me directly (until I grab a new ipv6 address)

Seriously?!? Incompetence... Thanks for writing this, disabled.

EDIT: FF: about:config, media.peerconnection.enabled => false

Thanks for this.

Oh, great. Ugh, thanks.

edit: Now my ip is reported as "ifconfig | grep inet | grep -v inet6 | cut -d" " -f2 | tail -n1" which is amusing.