Hide Your IP With NordVPN

What Is IP Address?

Internet Protocol (IP) address is a special series of numbers that your Internet Service Provider (ISP) assigns to you after you connect to the web. The protocol most ISP use today is IPv4, which contains four numbers that can vary from 0 to 255, separated by a single dot (.), for example, 13.155.0.232. IPv6 is the next-generation IP address standard meant to supplement and eventually replace IPv4. In general, IP is used to recognize your computer among the billions of other devices connected to the Internet and to ensure that your messages and requests for data could reach their correct destinations on the web.

Why should I hide my IP?

While receiving and sending data online would be impossible without an IP address, it reveals your geographical location. In a way, IP acts as your personal identification number. ISP assigns one IP address per client, therefore, you can be easily tracked online. In other words, your ISP can monitor your activity when you search the web, write emails or download the content from the Internet. Ever wondered why you couldn’t watch live sports events if you are away from that country? The answer is simple – due to your IP address.

Therefore, unblocking geographically restricted content is one of the main reasons why people decide to hide their IP address. So whether you want to gain access to hundreds of streaming sites that are unavailable in your country or bypass social media censorship, you can simply do that by encrypting your traffic and changing your IP.

What is more, government institutions, advertisers, and cyber criminals are finding new ways to track your activity on the web. By using your IP address, they can track your behaviour online and gather a significant amount of personal information. For this reason, you need to know how to hide IP address to protect your identity and privacy.

Why change my IP with VPN?

By using VPN or proxy servers you can stay private and access geo-restricted content. Since both of these options can get the job done, many users tend to believe that they both offer the same functionalities and benefits. On top of that, proxy servers do not encrypt your online traffic, while VPN does. Therefore, services such as NordVPN are designed to fully protect your online privacy and security.

Protect your privacy online with NordVPN

By using NordVPN, you can route your network traffic through a remote VPN server to replace your real IP address by one matching its location. As a result, all the data travelling from your device is sent via an encrypted connection and can no longer be tracked by your ISP. Also, with NordVPN you will be sharing an IP address with hundreds of users at the same time, making it even more difficult to track your activity online. Most importantly, NordVPN has a strict no-logs policy, therefore none of your data will be monitored or logged at any time.