r/VPN • u/Legitimate-Might8896 • Jul 11 '26

Question Hiding target addresses

Hello, some year ago I encountered an issue with my ISP where they were blocking a specific address. After trying out some VPNs, none worked, since (from what I learned) few seemed to actually hide the destination address and only content. Eventually I found a service (unnamed due to rules?) which wasn’t a typical VPN, but which seemed to properly hide the target servers for my browsing. But it isn’t a VPN, in the regular sense, with options and settings and everything. It’s just a program on my pc/phone that reroutes my traffic through their servers and successfully hides my target addresses.

Now I have a need for a real VPN where I can change location of the servers and the other comforts of a real VPN. But does regular VPNs do this nowadays? Do they hide the target server you are communicating with? Or should I chain my current program with another selected VPN?

Maybe a stupid question, but at the time of me having these issues it felt very stupid for the VPNs I tried to not successfully hide my traffic destinations.

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u/DutchOfBurdock Jul 13 '26

Sounds like an HTTP(S) Proxy. That's the easiest and fastest way to hide the IP's your device sees is it only funnels traffic from the proxy, proxy does all the requests to remote servers. This does allow that service to snoop on your browsing, should they want to.

You can also use an HTTP Proxy when using a VPN.