Incorrect if your VPN provider is using the best VPN protocols, i.e. OpenVPN. When such a VPN connection is operating, the traffic sent between you and the VPN Server is encrypted. Your ISP will not be able to see in plain text what you are doing online -- the web sites you visit or any data exchanged.
that they really only obscure your IP address from sites you visit.
this is true.
First, I add my vote to PIA aka Private Internet Access.
Second, be sure - whichever VPN you settle on - that it prevents DNS Leak. A DNS leak will allow your ISP to monitor everything you type (including links) that is sent between your 'puter and the VPN node youre using.
However, if your VPN does not "leak," then even your ISP cannot read the traffic from your 'puter. It can see that you are sending data, but it will be encrypted BEFORE it departs your machine.
Here are a couple of links that are useful for keeping tabs on your VPN's service:
https://dnsleaktest.com/
This site will run tests on your traffic between your computer and the VPN node, and then it will show you if there's a leak.
https://www.iplocation.net/
This one will return the IP code for your "location" in the WWW. For example, I just ran it in another tab, and it reports my IP address to be 196.52.10.24. This is Mexico City (the node I'm presently using). I am not in Mexico at all! Woot! Woot!
Believe what you want, but I do know he says VPN's pose absolutely no obstacle in his investigations, he says the ISP logs have everything he needs, and the ONLY ones that are difficult are one's which originate from ISP's outside of the country, and that those are the ones he hands off to his buddies at the FBI. He says the people they have blow the skills of his department away.
As for me, I use Avast vpn, it works properly and pretty quickly. https://cooltechzone.com/avast-free-vpn Programming is not my cup of tea, so I just leave an article here if anyone’s interested. But really, the best one I’ve tried so far.