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Is that better or worse than giving advertisers the data point that you're high-tech knowledgable and browse personal accounts from a server in a datacenter?
Yeah, that's why I think it's debatable. It's a lot easier to make those decisions on traffic coming from a known vpn ip, versus all vps providers in the world - many of which have corporate uses.
On the other hand - if you're smart enough to set up a vpn, you'll also be smart enough to set up ad blocking, so the point is kinda moot anyway. Plus you'll be a lot less likely to have your traffic logged opposed to a service vpn.
That's true. I'd only use a VPN service that's been audited (either by a security company or, preferably, law enforcement) not to keep logs. There are only a small handful of those however. It really all depends on your needs. There are far more VPN services that do log and sell the data, and/or turn your host device into a proxy for other users/services.