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It won't make any difference. It actually could potentially make you more fingerprintable, since your IP adress is no longer shared with many other people depending on the VPN you're using, etc.
At the end of the day, VPNs are not necessary to be not tracked, since your IP adress changes regulary, but it can be helpful in some scenario's and it's not harmful either, aslong your provider is not a bad actor.
Personally I'd rather my ISP see more of my internet activity as I think they are less likely to be interested in using/selling as much of my data (or be compromised in some way) as a VPN company. But I could be wrong.
Shortly after the net neutrality rules where first revoked mine sent a message asking me to opt out of gathering data for sale, so defiantly not always the case. Not trusting some checkbox to prevent them from doing so in the future got everything that can be put through tunnels since.
Ah that's too bad, guess I can't really blame you then.
I'm missing where you are getting this information...?
In the US pretty much all our ISPs use dynamic IPs by default and charge extra for static IPs. The lease time on the dynamic IP varies dramatically from ISP to ISP.
So they made a completely random assumption?
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Oh okay, never heard of this since it's very unsual to give static IPs to people, especially since IPv4 adresses are very limited in their amount.