Many readers are concerned about recent moves by the U.S. Congress that would roll back privacy rules. Some are looking at obfuscating all of their online browsing by paying for a VPN service. VPNs rely on specialized software that you download and install on your computer. A VPN service allows a customer in, say, New York City, to tunnel his traffic through one of several servers around the world, making it appear to any Web sites that his connection is coming from those servers, not from his ISP.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/post-fcc-privacy-rules-should-you-vpn/