▲ 195 ▼ Mullvad VPN discloses fingerprinting flaw that could track users across servers - you may need to act now (www.tomsguide.com) submitted 5 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/privacy@programming.dev 12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SwooshBakery624@programming.dev 51 points 5 months ago (1 child) https://mullvad.net/en/blog/exit-ip-fingerprinting-between-vpn-servers permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 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. permalink fedilink source parent