Provider-neutral self-test pilot
Perfect Privacy is the one provider on this list whose exit can differ from one website to the next. It describes NeuroRouting as a neural network and set of algorithms that continuously calculate routes so traffic stays inside its own encrypted network for as long as possible, chosen dynamically per destination. Its filtering, TrackStop, runs on the name servers rather than in the client. Both change how a single reading should be interpreted.
Live test
Perfect Privacy chooses a route per destination with NeuroRouting, so the address this page sees is the exit for this page and not necessarily the exit for the next site you open.
Current-session checks
Compare a reading before connecting with one after. Remember that with NeuroRouting active the exit is picked per destination, so a single address is a sample rather than a fixed answer.
Before you read the result
The points below come from Perfect Privacy's own feature documentation for NeuroRouting, TrackStop, DNS handling and its kill switch.
Perfect Privacy describes NeuroRouting as keeping your data inside its encrypted network as long as possible, with a neural network and its own algorithms constantly calculating the best route for each destination, dynamically, depending on the sites you visit. The exit address this page reports is the one chosen for this page. Another site can legitimately see a different one.
TrackStop is described as blocking advertising and tracking domains on Perfect Privacy's own name servers, with optional filtering of phishing, social media and more. Because it works at the resolver rather than in the browser, a domain can fail to load with no extension involved. That is a setting on the account, not a fault in the tunnel.
The VPN Manager is documented as having an internet kill switch with three security levels, and the app is described as shipping firewall protection that acts as a kill switch so that no traffic leaves over the unencrypted network. Which level was active changes what an unexpected address here means, so it is worth reading before the browser is blamed.
Perfect Privacy says you are automatically assigned an IPv6 address and can use IPv6 anywhere, and that the VPN Manager also has protection preventing leaks over IPv6. An IPv6 line with content is therefore consistent with the service working. The check worth making is whose network that address belongs to.
The documentation notes that leak protection ensures only Perfect Privacy name servers resolve names, while the client also offers a checkbox to enter resolvers of your own instead. If you used it, the DNS line here will name your choice and TrackStop will not apply. Both facts follow from a setting rather than from a leak.
Between the readings
Perfect Privacy's VPN Manager is documented as having a kill switch with three security levels. Which level was actually in force is easier to establish from a recorded drop than from the settings screen.
Safe Copy exports use safe summary categories and remove raw IP, exact city, full user-agent, raw fingerprint data, raw resolver IPs and WebRTC candidates. It is not a certificate, provider audit, or proof of anonymity.
FAQ
Because NeuroRouting is documented as calculating a route per destination so traffic stays inside the provider network as long as possible. The address here belongs to the path chosen for this page.
Perfect Privacy describes it as filtering advertising and tracking domains on its own name servers, with optional categories such as phishing and social media. It works at the resolver, so no browser extension is involved.
It states that an IPv6 address is assigned automatically and that the VPN Manager also protects against IPv6 leaks. Content on the IPv6 line here is consistent with that rather than a surprise.
The VPN Manager is documented with an internet kill switch offering three security levels, alongside firewall protection in the app that acts as a kill switch. Which one is active changes how an unexpected reading should be read.
Yes. The client offers a checkbox to enter resolvers of your own instead of the provider's. If you did, the DNS line above will name them and the name server filtering will not apply to your queries.
No. It sees the address that answered for this request. The internal path between entry and exit is not something a browser can observe, and no reading here should be read as describing it.