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AnthonyMouselast Wednesday at 5:51 AM0 repliesview on HN

HTTP isn't allowed on secure pages because the security of HTTP is known to be non-existent. WebRTC uses datagram TLS, which is approximately on par with HTTPS.

The thing that's happening here isn't really a problem with WebRTC. Compare this to having an app on your phone that listens on an arbitrary port and spits out a unique tracking ID to anything that connects. Does it matter if the connection is made using HTTP or HTTPS or WebRTC or something else? Not really. The actual problem is that you installed malware on your phone.