On Friday the 15th of May, we became aware of a fingerprinting issue affecting Mullvad users.
We have a method which changes this behaviour currently being tested, with plans to begin rolling it out to our VPN servers in the coming weeks.
Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/exit-ip-fingerprinting-between-vpn-servers
Mullvad VPN
npub168…s9uaw
2026-05-20 15:58:47 UTC
Author Public Key
npub168euw93e4cam59llcmydav0akwjk2p4nfy3p85pn22xv9y2jxuzq4s9uawSeen on
wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-05-20 15:58:47 UTCEvent JSON
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