Like the Opera suggestion, I see how that would provide an additional layer of encryption, but I don't see how that would hide my IP address.
This is why I roll my own VPN (OpenWRT with WireGuard).
Like the Opera suggestion, I see how that would provide an additional layer of encryption, but I don't see how that would hide my IP address.
True. Using OpenWRT and WireGuard will give you strong privacy. However, they will not give you anonymity (hiding your source IP address).
Privacy and anonymity are two very different things.