The purpose of a VPN does not include anonymizing users with respect to the sites they visit,so it shouldn't be too surprising that Mullvad doesn't enforce unique exit IPs. Users who want anonymity should use networks like Tor.

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illiac786 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why not? Why can’t it be the purpose of a given VPN service?

	▲	PhilipRoman 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you use the VPN for the Web, browser fingerprinting is a major threat outside of specialized scenarios

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jorvi 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That is exactly the point of public VPNs..

If I'm on a public VPN, I don't want anyone to know who is making the request, including the terminating IP.

Think about it. By your logic, VPNs shouldn't be used for torrents because VPNs shouldn't anonymize you to the terminating IP. Whereas they work gangbusters for that.

If you are talking about private VPNs.. Mullvad isn't one.

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DrBenCarson 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Public VPNs only protect you from your ISP

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charcircuit 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think you are misreading his comment. He is saying that on a VPN it is standard behavior that if you visit site A and site B they will both see you connecting from the same IP and can infer you are potentially the same person.

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fragmede an hour ago | parent [-]

Site A and B have to collude in order to make that inference. Outside of Cloudflare, no one is colluding at that level.

	▲	antonvs 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That would only be true if there were no ad networks. But today’s internet is essentially a giant ad network.

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colordrops 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't Tor a us government project that has been shown to be deanonymizable?

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SirHumphrey 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sort of. There are a bunch of timing attacks bug in general it still works fairly well.

	▲	overfeed 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also, a buch of conspiring entry-/exit-nodes will do the trick, if you have a budget for enough of them.

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breppp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

and so is ARPANET