alt Hacker NewsSome VPN providers don't even have exit nodes in the country they're claiming. Instead they'll have their IPs registered to the respective countries in GeoIP databases.
This isn't a practice all VPN providers partake in. And from my own anecdotal experiences, Mullvad seem to be using services that are geo-located (I say this because I've tested latency between different endpoints in Mullvad). But it is something to be wary of with some of the less reputable providers.
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sammy2255 • today at 2:33 AM
Mullvad doesnt do that, but "ExpressVPN" absolutely does
IPInfo did a report on this: https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
From our side we noticed a VPN provider had a location we'd been trying to get, but had been unable to, so we started digging to find their provider. Long story short the server purportedly in some middle east country was actually 3ms away from our server in Berlin.