It adds some level of privacy without going as far as something like Tor. As a result, it's a lot faster than Tor, but a lot less private.
The "privacy" it adds is that it separates your IP from your request, so no one actor on the way knows "X requested Y". A server knows "X requested something", another one knows "someone requested Y".
Maybe you don't need it, but I don't see how this is slightly creepy.
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It adds some level of privacy without going as far as something like Tor. As a result, it's a lot faster than Tor, but a lot less private.
The "privacy" it adds is that it separates your IP from your request, so no one actor on the way knows "X requested Y". A server knows "X requested something", another one knows "someone requested Y".
Maybe you don't need it, but I don't see how this is slightly creepy.