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Is it more powerful than VPN for not finding my real IP address?
If you want someone to never find your IP, sign-up to a internet provider that supports ipv4 cgnet, you'll get lots of warnings from websites all the time saying unusual activity was detected from your IP address verify your not a robot again.
Because your IP is shared and resets amongst a pool, while the internet provider has your details just not so could someone determine your activities where everyone in that shared IP are criminals, but who.
Proxies just a way to relay multiple ip's at the same time, think of it as a car with 4 wheels, they can be changed at any point but not the Axel, where as the suspension would be the VPN changing its leaks, with each spring bouncing, where as the tires of the wheel are the proxies, they can work with the wheel or not, and given we have 4 wheels they can actually go on other cars making them mobile meaning mobile phones using GPS, proximity based locations, so once we slap on the wheels to the car we can have many interchangeable parts but given a VPN is tied to one profile per account its also a server grade ip, meaning its shared like cgnet.
So the question requires your needs:
if you want a hassle free leave me alone go cgnet internet providers, cgnet is cheap but comes with internet providers.
Then VPN same thing just get to control where or when you want to sniff around other cars while taking a dump on their front window giving them truama for life.
And then there's proxies they can come in many rim flavours gold plated poor plated their like burner phones always changing randomly like the tor browsers onion network that connects to random networks hiding the package.