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by ZenoArrow 3065 days ago
They're useful for "spoofing your IP address".
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That's not IP spoofing, which actually has a well-defined meaning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing). Using a VPN for this purpose is merely proxying your traffic through a third party who has promised not to tell the server on the other end who or where you are.
Not in the context of impersonating Boris Johnson's IP they are not.