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Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

YOU WILL LEARN

The difference between a VPN and Apple’s Private Relay

To prevent your ISP being able to see what you’re doing, VPNs provide you with internet access through their own servers

The simple answer is not very: data is sent and received over the internet in so-called ‘packets’. First, those packets can be linked to your computer, because they’re tagged with the public IP address allocated to your modem router by your internet provider. This enables data to transmit between servers without getting lost, but obviously means

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