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The rest of this site judges 77 providers. This section explains the thing being judged: what a VPN does, what it cannot do, and which of the promises made for it are true. It is written for a reader who has not decided they want one.
Everyone who carries your traffic can read where it goes.Visibility moved rather than disappeared: the party in the middle changed.
One encrypted hop between your device and the internet. This page is the starting point for the section: what the hop does, who it hides you from, who it hands the view to instead, and which of the promises made for it survive contact with the mechanism.
A guide is steps — open this, change that, confirm it worked. An explainer is prose about a mechanism: it answers what a thing is and what it does, not how to operate one. If you came for the settings rather than the subject, the guides are where they are.
Same rule as the guides. Where an explainer names a provider it links to that provider's record, not to a tracked outbound link — a page written to explain something is the worst possible place to sell it.