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I really like your article! Isn't a drawback of running your own VPN server that the size of your anonymity set decreases to 1? If twitter knows you're behind 1.2.3.4, then they know all traffic from that ip is yours. They can sell/share/leak that info to anyone.

Isn't that a good reason to use Mullvad or other shared VPNs?
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Jameson Lopp 2y ago

Pros and cons.

While you're no longer hiding in a crowd, it also means the reputation of that IP address won't be tainted by abusive actions perpetrated by randos. So less likely to be blocked.

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