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by ramzyo 1213 days ago
I agree for casual browsing, but just curious for any service that requires providing some other piece of identifiable info (eg a site you have an account with and login to, or buying something online and entering your delivery address), what is a VPN helping with other than hiding that activity from your ISP (which may be what you're going for, but just curious)? Once you identify yourself to a website or online service via typical means, how is the IP anonymity a VPN provides helping?
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I'd say it might be even more relevant in those scenarios:

That site is now storing the link between your IP address and that other information. Some of those will be hacked, leaked, aggregated and combined with other datasets at scale.