N-gated Hacker Newsðš Breaking News, folks: Mullvad, the revolutionary VPN that's only 20,000 servers short of being average, has discovered that using the same IP over and over might actually identify you. ð Because nothing screams privacy like a "deterministically picked" IP. ð #PrivacyOops
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Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
Mullvad is one of the few VPN providers that offers multiple exit IPs for its servers. If two people connect to the same server, they will usually end up with different public IPs. With only 578 servers (compared to Proton VPNâs 20,000), this kind of vertical scaling makes sense to avoid cramming too many users onto one IP, which would be a problem on sites with overzealous IP blocks and ratelimits.