Is your VPN actually hiding you?
This page runs the same checks websites can run, and tells you if anything gets around your VPN. It takes a few seconds and works with any VPN or privacy relay.
This takes a few seconds.
Tip: run it twice, once with your VPN off and once on. Your provider's name should disappear when the VPN is on. ip5.io doesn't remember the first result, so note it down.
When some of your traffic, or a detail about it, goes around the VPN. Websites then see your real provider and rough location, even though the VPN app says you're protected.
Many VPNs only carry the older kind of address, IPv4. If your provider also gives you IPv6, websites that support it, like Google and YouTube, reach you directly on it. Turning on IPv6 leak protection in the VPN app, or turning IPv6 off there, fixes it.
WebRTC lets browsers make video calls. To do that, the browser can tell a website which addresses it can be reached on, and with some browsers and VPNs that includes your real one. Most current browsers and VPNs prevent this, which this check confirms.
It doesn't reveal your address, but it tells websites you're probably using a VPN: your computer says Istanbul while your address says Amsterdam. Streaming and shopping sites use this to block VPNs. Picking a VPN server in your own time zone avoids it.
No. It hides your address and provider from websites, and your browsing from your provider. Websites can still recognize you by your logins, cookies and browser fingerprint, and the VPN company can see your traffic instead of your provider.