A VPN can provide ‘network privacy’ by hiding your true IP address from the websites you visit, and the websites you visit from your Internet Service Provider. VPN software can provide privacy from harmful entities on the network, e.g. websites that try to reverse engineer your identity via tracking your IP address and similar, and/or ISPs that track what you’re doing online, however, they cannot provide privacy from your browser or other programs on your computer.
Further, you can add a VPN to your StartMeStick by choosing a VPN provider that offers a Chrome extension.
If you prefer not to login and sync Chrome, you can manually add the VPN extension to Chrome each time. You have to do it each time because when you shut down the StartMeStick nothing from that session is saved to your computer or to the StartMeStick. That’s what we mean by the StartMeStick "goes back to brand new" after each use!