Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) encrypt your internet connection and change your IP address. Combined, these two actions help improve your online privacy by hiding what you're looking at, and they can also help you evade tracking by third parties, such as advertisers, hackers, the government, and your internet service provider (ISP).
Because your data is sent via a remotely located VPN server, you can also access the internet as if you were in any country you can find a server for.
