While a VPN is a great tool to help separate your location (and in many ways, you) from your data, it doesn’t obscure everything about you. If you take a Facebook quiz or like a post on Instagram, the app you are using while connected to the VPN is still able to use your behaviour to tailor in-app ads and content.
They might not know where you are browsing from, but they will still know what you are doing on their apps.
Similarly, if cookies are enabled on your computer, companies can follow you while you are on their site and afterwards.
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I never understood why everyone used a VPN when joining school's public WiFi, and what the actual benefit of it was. Hence I decided to look it up and learn for myself!
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