A VPN acts as a middle-man between a user and the Internet. The encrypted tunnel stops anyone, including their ISP, from seeing their traffic. An impressive 36 percent of people in Malwarebytes Labs surveyed said they now use a VPN. Using a VPN can hide your traffic from your ISP or pretend you are in another country. Some websites are only available in certain territories (geofenced), so pretending to be somewhere you arent can give you access to resources that would otherwise be hidden from you.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2021/01/how-a-vpn-can-protect-your-online-privacy/