Privacy check
Open the page and look at yourself the way an ordinary website does: your address, your country, your provider, and everything the browser tells on you. At the top of the card there is a plain verdict — you look like you are on a VPN, or you are online directly.
Checking…
- IP address
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- Location by IP
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- Provider
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- Connection type
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- Browser time zone
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- Browser language
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- Local address (WebRTC)
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- Device fingerprint
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How to use it in a minute
- Look at the card with the VPN off. Note the address, the country and the provider — this is what every site you open can see.
- Switch the VPN on and press “Check again”.
- Compare. If the address and country changed and the connection type became “data centre”, the protected connection works and sites see a server instead of your home.
What exactly is checked
- IP address and address type. Your number on the internet: sites use it to tell where a request came from and what to show you;
- Location and provider. Derived from the address and always approximate — it points at a network node, not at your home;
- Connection type. “Data centre” is the typical sign of a VPN, “mobile” means a cellular carrier, “home or office” is a direct connection;
- Browser time zone and language. Reported by the browser itself, and they may differ from the country of your address — perfectly normal with a VPN on;
- Local address (WebRTC). Whether a site can see the address of your device inside your home network;
- Device fingerprint. Operating system, browser and screen resolution — the set by which sites recognise a visitor even without cookies.
What this check does not do
Honest limits beat false comfort. We do not test for DNS leaks — that needs our own network of DNS servers, and republishing someone else’s result under our name would be wrong. We do not resolve your public address over WebRTC: that test only works through a third-party helper server, and we deliberately never send your browser to third parties — everything on this page comes from our own server. And we do not check whether a site is blocked: our server sits outside the country and sees the internet differently from your provider, so that answer would simply be untrue.
Matches and mismatches — what is normal
A “points to another region” tag on the time zone or language does not mean something is broken. It means exactly what it says: the device is set to one country while the address comes from another. For the job at hand — getting your usual services back — it does not matter, because sites look at the address. Becoming indistinguishable from a local resident of another country is a different and far harder task, and we do not promise it.
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Frequently asked questions
What does this check show?
Everything a website sees the moment you open it: your IP address, the country and city behind that address, your provider and connection type, plus what the browser itself reports — time zone, language, screen resolution and operating system. We simply gathered it in one place and labelled it in plain words.
How do I tell whether my VPN is working?
Look at the top line of the card. “Looks like you are on a VPN” means your address belongs to a server in a data centre — that is what a protected connection looks like. “You are online directly” means sites see the real address of your home or mobile provider.
My time zone does not match the IP country — is that bad?
No, and it is expected with a VPN on: your address may be German while the clock on your device still says Moscow. It does not affect access to sites and services — they look at the address. There is no need to change the time zone on your device because of this.
What is the “local address (WebRTC)” row?
The browser technology behind video calls can hand a site the address of your device inside your home network (something like 192.168.…). Modern browsers hide it, so in most cases you will see “hidden by the browser”. Even when it is visible it says nothing about you: millions of home routers use the very same addresses.
Do you store any of this?
No. Everything is worked out when the page opens and stays in your browser: we do not record it and do not link it to your account. The network facts come from our own server, so your browser never talks to a third-party site.
Do you test for DNS leaks?
Not yet, and we say so honestly: a correct DNS test needs our own DNS infrastructure, and we would rather not put someone else’s results under our name. This page checks what we can measure ourselves and stand behind.