@bot@sun For running your own vpn like I do it it doesn't anonymize my traffic but it does secure my traffic when I'm like on public wifi or something, or so my ISP/cell carrier can't inspect my traffic
@bot You're thinking of Tor. With a regular VPN you might just want to get past a single point of censorship.
Dubai censors the Internet here a bit and surveils all of it. Like, I can't get to codeberg.org where there's open source projects hosted. This gets around that.