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Do I really need a VPN or does DNS over HTTPS does the trick?
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Just to add a counterpoint to all the comments, my personal policy is who do you trust more your ISP or your VPN provider, most VPNs say they don't track but they can easily lie about it and they could easily change their policy overnight. Also, since most require a client installed on your machine, they could easily install a shim and get access to your in-flight encrypted data. If this were a case where you're in a country where you know they're tracking you, absolutely use a VPN that you trust. In the US/EU I just don't see much use for a VPN unless you're trying to get access to Geo-blocked content.
With some VPN services you may or may not help out in a peripheral way. I've seen a bunch of random times over the last year when websites prompt me about being in Ukraine. I'm in the USA. I switch my VPN location at random after clearing my cookies/cache/site settings. It seems to help obfuscate tracking to some degree. I really want to setup a automated randomized VPN on my next router running OpenWRT.