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[salazar]

Yep, you’re right. We have an upcoming feature that’ll prevent this (node families).

You can read through this thread to learn how it’ll work.

The new feature to randomly choose a server defeats nym decentralization?

NymVPN disallows a user to select the same server for entry and exit, but yes indeed, there is the additional problem that two different servers might be run by the same operator - and thereby undermine the benefits of decentralization. This is why Nym is rolling out the concept of ‘node families’, so that the route selection algorithm can detect if several nodes are run by the same operator and make sure to exclude those routes. (The concept is somewhat similar to Tor’s relay FamilyID’s: Tor Pr…