What is VPN?

Now simple definition would be VPN is Virtual Private Network, but what does that mean? basically it allows a user to browser the internet a bit more safely. What it does So VPN allows user to access contents of say a website they don't have access to or if you don't trust the internet itself it helps you to browser the internet without giving away your IP address How it works Now assume you want to search a website called us_only_website.com . now if you try to search it then you will not be able to view it cause its a US only website. only a user in US can access it. So your website query goes to the nearest ISP and sees your IP(192.168.x.x) is trying to call website us_only_website.com, it goes to the us_only_website.com and see it comes from some other country so it rejects it. Now lets use our VPN app for this. Now when you download a VPN you can set its location, lets say we set it to US. now here is what happens, we search us_only_website.com, now before it goes to the local ISP