A VPN provides a secure tunnel, so it prevents your data from being sniffed on the insecure WiFi in your local coffee shop, and up every hop to the terminating

A VPN provides a secure tunnel, so it prevents your data from being sniffed on the insecure WiFi in your local coffee shop, and up every hop to the terminating server. So you can prevent an ISP and friendly neighborhood hacker from seeing your requests. However, the terminating server can see EVERYTHING. So if you want a VPN, use https://github.com/trailofbits/algo https://github.com/trailofbits/algo or https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand. Algo is my favorite, but both are pretty effective in my opinion.