These days any anonymizing proxy is marketed as "VPN". Probably because there's been enough marketing dollars spent on making the average joe equate "private in

These days any anonymizing proxy is marketed as "VPN". Probably because there's been enough marketing dollars spent on making the average joe equate "private internet" (whatever that means) with VPN, they'd be losing out on a lot of traffic if they market themselves accurately, and the difference is entirely lost on 99% of the potential market anyway.