Cookies you can clear. Fingerprints you can randomise. Your IP address is the piece that stays, and it is attached to every request your machine makes.
A residential or mobile proxy puts a different address in front of your traffic. The site logs that one instead, and it looks like any other home connection because that is what it is.
Ad networks and analytics tie sessions together by IP long after the cookie is gone. Same address, same profile, whatever the browser does.
Geolocation databases map your address to a city and an ISP. That is enough to change the prices and the content you get shown.
Commercial VPN exits are shared, published and widely blocked. Swapping one flagged address for another flagged address does not help much.
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See plans and pricingRead the Privacy and anonymity guideNo. A VPN routes your whole device through one tunnel. A proxy routes chosen traffic through an address you pick, and you can hold hundreds of different ones at once.
It removes your IP from the picture. Browser fingerprint, logins and the data you type are still yours, so pair it with an antidetect browser if that matters to you.
Mobile. Carrier-grade NAT means thousands of real subscribers share the address you are on, so it carries very little signal.
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