Comment by jorvi
8 hours ago
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.
Public VPNs only protect you from your ISP
And, arguably more importantly, from the service you're using.
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.
Site A and B have to collude in order to make that inference. Outside of Cloudflare, no one is colluding at that level.
Plenty of people own more than one website. You're also forgetting about random site assets like web fonts, CSS, JavaScript CDNs, etc. etc.
That would only be true if there were no ad networks.
But today’s internet is essentially a giant ad network.