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Except in the context of the FCC ruling, the purpose of the VPN is not to obfuscate your IP from the websites you go to.

The purpose is to hide the traffic from your internet provider.

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You're just shifting that responsibility to the server provider in that case. You have more privacy protections from your ISP than you do from someone you rent a server from.

> You have more privacy protections from your ISP

What protections do we have from ISPs now?

They aren't allowed to sell or release personal identifiable information. That's not the case for server providers as they aren't considered carriers, and thus aren't beholden to the Telecommunications Act of 1986 in the same way your ISP is.

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