Trying to understand VPN

A normie VPN is the same as a business VPN. The only difference is businesses usually use split tunneling, so o my traffic destined to internal resources at another location utilize the VPN, and their internet traffic gets router out their local internet connection. Normies use VPNs to tunnel all their traffic, regardless if its destination to go to some other location and exit out to the internet from that locations internet connection.

>>57189667
Yes its more or less the same, but the VPN tunnels all your connections through it

>>57190386
I thought proxies did too but now that you mention it I think they only do a handful of protocols, you're right, and probably not the P2P ones.

>>57189667
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVPN

>Is a VPN basically an encrypted proxy?
Almost, a VPN is an encrypted end to end tunnel that by default all traffic will go through, a proxy by default only works on certain ports/protocols and may not be encrypted

what's the best vpn?

>>57189667
VPNs in the case you mention is really for avoiding the harvesting of accurate metadata that can be singled to a specific IP address. Header level, effectively.

OP here. Thanks guys for the help understanding VPN.