VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network”. It’s often described as a tunnel that your data flows through. What it really does is it encrypts your information and omits anything in the encrypted packages that identifies your IP address. That way, if anyone somehow decrypted the data, they still wouldn’t know where it came from. The VPN provider knows who you are, but it’s not in the data flowing out.
Your data flows through a server somewhere (mine is in Bolivia) and then goes to the destination you sent it. So the FR server thinks this information is coming from Bolivia.
Prices range from $75 to $150 a year. ExpressVPN is about $100 a year.
Note: if you turn on location services on your phone, then your location is transmitted outside the VPN.
New stuff to me. Is it bought from alternative companies, or would Verizon or some other regular carrier sell it?
VPN is good for a lot of things..
BUT, If you phone is sending or receiving information.. You are still easily tracked.
You are still sending and receiving data from the closest cell towers. YOU may “show” you’re in Kansas.
But if “they” look, you will be shown to be sending and receiving from 3 cell towers in a 1 mile radius from wherever you actually are.