These are the public IP and country websites get from you. Check again after connecting to SoVPN and you'll see the server's instead.
Your internet provider gives your connection a public IP. Websites use it to tell your country, and often your city and provider too.
If that IP stays the same, ad companies can more easily link visits on different sites back to one person.
While you are connected, sites see the SoVPN server's IP instead of yours. Move to a server in another country and the country they see moves too.
Connect, then refresh this page to confirm the IP changed.
No. It only shows the address on screen and keeps nothing.
IP location is based on where the provider registered the address, so it can differ from where you are. On a work network or another VPN, you'll see that network's location.
Not your name, from the IP alone. Your provider's subscriber records can tie it to you, though, so hiding it on public Wi-Fi or abroad is the safer choice.
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