Whether you’re working remotely, connecting to unsecured Wi-Fi, or streaming and gaming at home, a reliable VPN is now an essential cybersecurity tool. It helps you encrypt your traffic, protect your privacy, and reclaim some of your internet freedoms.

For all these benefits, using a VPN also has some disadvantages. Websites could have ways to detect your VPN use, and if they catch you, they could spam you with error messages and warnings, or block your access entirely. Search engines might start to hold you up at every turn with endless CAPTCHA tasks. 

If this sort of thing happens, the culprit is likely your shared IP address. When sites detect that multiple people are accessing them using a single IP address, they might assume it’s a VPN address and blocklist it. Switching…