---
title: "How Does a VPN Work? Tutorial for Beginners"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-does-a-vpn-work-tutorial-for-beginners-ga-e4ktai
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-does-a-vpn-work/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
published: 2023-01-24T02:36:55.159Z
updated: 2023-01-24T02:36:55.069Z
tags: ["security", "privacy", "vpn", "encryption"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 19
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How Does a VPN Work? Tutorial for Beginners

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 9 min read · 19 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

A VPN works by routing / forwarding all your data from your laptop or phone through your VPN to the internet, rather than directly through your ISP. When you use a VPN, it encrypts your data on the client side. After the data is encrypted, it's passed through a VPN tunnel which others can’t access.

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**@donguillotine** · 1 upvotes

> Very insightful, thanks for sharing.

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Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#vpn](https://daily.dev/tags/vpn), [#encryption](https://daily.dev/tags/encryption)

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