How a VPN hides what you do online

Process map by Brian. 12 steps, 1 layer. Tags: technology, privacy, security, internet.

1. You: You turn on the VPN app
2. You: Your device sets up an encrypted tunnel to the VPN server
3. You: You visit a website
4. Your internet provider: Your provider sees only scrambled traffic going to the VPN server
5. VPN server: The VPN server decrypts it and asks the website for the page
6. The website: The website sees the VPN server's address, not yours
7. The website: It sends the page back to the VPN server
8. VPN server: The VPN encrypts it and sends it through the tunnel
9. You: The page appears and your provider never saw what it was
10. VPN server: Does the VPN keep logs?
11. VPN server: The VPN company can see everything your provider could
12. VPN server: Nobody in the middle has a record

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