VPN technology encrypts all your online activities. Everything you send and receive. If you're only logging in through a VPN, it's not your real source of connection that is visible, but one of the many VPN routers.

VPN technologies are helping to approach true anonymity without resorting to the TOR network, in which the connection loops over a wide network of repeaters, constantly changing the position of activities on the Internet so that no one can focus on them. VPNs don't use such a protocol, but they provide sufficient - and very important - protection as you travel on unregulated and intruder-laden roads.