I use a VPN service so that my IP address appears to be the same as many other people&#x27;s IP addresses to advertisers and trackers (another layer on top of using browser plugins).  I&#x27;m not trying to hide from the government or do anything illegal; I just don&#x27;t want companies that I&#x27;ve never heard of knowing more about me than my own family.<p>It seems to me like this would be an applicable usage of a shared VPN service.  Of course I am trusting that the VPN service isn&#x27;t selling my traffic to some other tracking company.  I am I wrong in using a VPN for this function, is there a better way?