Just so that you know, HN is the worst possible place to ask general questions. But I'm more curious to know why you think a VPN will keep you "secure" on soci

Just so that you know, HN is the worst possible place to ask general questions. But I'm more curious to know why you think a VPN will keep you "secure" on social media? All a VPN does is change your ip address; what threat do you think that protects you from? Social networking is for learning about people based on their behavior, and then showing ads to them. That primarily means the content, frequency, and nature of people's interactions with other people and with content such as videos and articles. Your ip address is irrelevant to all of that.