When a user’s assigned a static forwarded port, it creates a unique identifier that can be used to track and correlate their VPN activity over time.
This persistent identifier undermines the core anonymity purpose of a VPN service, as it provides a way to fingerprint and potentially deanonymize specific users despite the VPN encryption.
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When a user’s assigned a static forwarded port, it creates a unique identifier that can be used to track and correlate their VPN activity over time.
This persistent identifier undermines the core anonymity purpose of a VPN service, as it provides a way to fingerprint and potentially deanonymize specific users despite the VPN encryption.
Also, it allowed for people to host CP content which was a pretty bad look for Mullvad.