Nearly half of Americans are using a VPN. Are you one of them? You should be. The mechanics behind VPNs are murky to most people, but think of it like the way you think of your car.

You can still use one without knowing all the nitty gritty details of how it works. They’re that easy to operate. And you don’t have to be Jason Bourne to enjoy the benefits of using one: vastly improved privacy from digital snoops, criminal creeps, and invasive websites and trackers.

VPN stands for virtual private network. Acting as a middleman, it routes all the information exchange between you and other websites’ servers on the internet, in both directions, through a server owned by the VPN service.

Should a website or a bad actor try to follow you across the web, they won’t see your unique, identifiable

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