That means that VPNs are a much safer way to spend time online, whether you're keeping away from geo-locked content, surfing potentially dangerous content, or even going about your day-to-day business. Put simply, it masks your online activities and behaves as a type of barrier between you and those who would threaten to do you harm.
When you go online from behind the safety of a VPN, you're hidden beneath the layer of a different IP address in another location.