Sunshine@piefed.ca to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 3 months agoMullvad VPN discloses fingerprinting flaw that could track users across servers - you may need to act nowwww.tomsguide.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1200arrow-down11
arrow-up1199arrow-down1external-linkMullvad VPN discloses fingerprinting flaw that could track users across servers - you may need to act nowwww.tomsguide.comSunshine@piefed.ca to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square12linkfedilink
minus-squareSwooshBakery624 [they/them]@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·3 months agohttps://mullvad.net/en/blog/exit-ip-fingerprinting-between-vpn-servers
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoThis 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.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/exit-ip-fingerprinting-between-vpn-servers
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.