All a VPN does is encrypt the traffic between you and the server you VPN into. It will prevent your service provider from viewing that traffic. That is literally all it does.
No one cares about IP's. Being paranoid about your IP is pointless when you have 500 million cookies in your browser and they;ve already fingerprinted you 6 ways from sunday.
If one is at work then most likely the company can be identified by the ip. People could go after the company based on that publicly available information, regardless of having access to cookies on individual machines. It seems like a risk worth avoiding when it is fairly easy to do so.
So a VPN does not mask one's IP address? Why the hell would anybody pay for one then?
All a VPN does is encrypt the traffic between you and the server you VPN into. It will prevent your service provider from viewing that traffic. That is literally all it does.
doesn't it also hide your origin ip address?
No one cares about IP's. Being paranoid about your IP is pointless when you have 500 million cookies in your browser and they;ve already fingerprinted you 6 ways from sunday.
If one is at work then most likely the company can be identified by the ip. People could go after the company based on that publicly available information, regardless of having access to cookies on individual machines. It seems like a risk worth avoiding when it is fairly easy to do so.
I'm sure they're thinking of a proxy server, which in that case it very well would mask their ip address with an ip wherever the proxy is located.