> The advantages for the user are, if they find a server that works for accessing some service they can connect to that server again and it will work again because they get the same IP.
replyOn the flip side, if they’re getting banned by a service because of a noisy neighbor on the same IP, they’d have no way to work around that, no?
You mean if the neighbor somehow burned every VPN location?
replyDoesn’t even need to be every location. Some services are only accessible from a single country, and Mullvad has at most a handful of locations per country.
replyAll things considered, there are just an incredibly small number of IPs shared among all users, no matter the allocation strategy.