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Mullvad VPN discloses fingerprinting flaw that could track users across servers - you may need to act now (www.tomsguide.com)
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[โ€“] SwooshBakery624@programming.dev 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/exit-ip-fingerprinting-between-vpn-servers

[โ€“] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

This just sounds like regular browser fingerprinting, so it's not really about the VPN.

We already knew VPNs alone were not a full privacy setup.

NoScripts is a browser extension that reduces fingerprinting by blocking websites from running javascript code to extract that info from your device.