but be careful of which VPN provider you’re using. Mulvad is a good option

Unless you're (not you PhoenixDog specifically, the general You referring to the reader) blocking your browser fingerprinting, using Ad blocker, DNS filtering from trusted sources, not using social media app, not installing apps that require Google Play Services and not using your credit card for digital payments then simply changing the IP address that the server sees doesn't do very much.

VPNs can be part of a solution but if you are not doing all of the other things then they do not hide who you are because of the plethora of other avenues that you can be tied to an existing advertising identity.

Yeah, VPN's are unfortunately essential. If I hadn't made it a project to request deletion of my info off the top 30 background check sites, I'd be using something like DeleteMe too.