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A VPN is useless. You're introducing another entity that can track you.
Pick your poison.
A VPN actually hides your IP from the webpage.
Websites don't need your IP to accurately remember you and track you. Using a VPN only helps when you want to hide stuff from your ISP, nothing else.
...and that is a good thing as ISPs are some of the worst companies with the worst privacy policies and a penchant for selling any data they collect from you to the highest bidder...and any other bidder as well
Does it hide your IP from the VPN provider?
So does CGNAT.