It does more than that. AWS or Linode are not, to my knowledge, deploying the sort of intrusive, ad-centric deep packet inspection that Comcast, for instance, i

It does more than that. AWS or Linode are not, to my knowledge, deploying the sort of intrusive, ad-centric deep packet inspection that Comcast, for instance, is. It is also a layer of separation from your actual IP address, which is worth less than it may seem at first, but helps. Of course, that could change if everyone starts using homebrew VPNs. That's a bit hard to imagine, but stranger things and all that.