How do VPN protect my privacy ?

How do VPN protect my privacy?

VPN help protect your privacy by removing the direct connections to the personal browsing information companies use to track you. VPN replace your IP address, one of the primary ways the internet knows who you are, where you’re connecting from and what you’re doing as you move around the internet. VPN won’t block cookies, but they will confuse the data the cookies report back because the owner of the cookie will think you’re in a different place.

If you’re using TunnelBear, we use encrypted DNS servers, so your address requests are protected. It’s important to know, encrypted DNS isn’t the same thing as a private search engine. If you already know the address of the site you want, like tunnelbear.com, typing that in your address bar will take you straight to that address, but it’s still a DNS request that your ISP could see.