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These questions are about the nature of Cloud more than your original questions about VPNs but I'll give a whack at it. If you just need a generic computer somewhere, it doesn't matter what they server is billed as. If it's a computer that you can fully access and utilize the OS, including software installation and root/admin access. If you have those things you can pretty much do whatever you want on the VM. You can install all kinds of poo poo on a seedbox, or a cloud VM, or a VPS, or anything else. It's just a computer running on someone else's hardware that you rent. This should answer both of your questions, but just to make sure you understand the context, the benefit of Cloud is in 3 things:
I have a bunch of poo poo in GCP, because GCP has a very not well known "Always Free" tier of services that I can run websites on. I found some Ansible projects to set up a webserver and even copy my lovely website code to them automagically, which means I only have to worry about DNS and everything's running. Since you were asking about VPN, take a look at Algo and how it functions: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo It will set up a VM in the cloud and install all the software necessary to make it work. When I travel overseas I usually set one up in the GCP Free Tier to access US netflix, and the house.
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Despite what Lowtax and countless Youtubers will tell you, VPNs do not provide privacy or security in any way. The Tom Scott video linked above covers that pretty well. Seriously, watch this poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY What provides privacy are browser extensions and other poo poo (pihole, etc) that block cookies that identify who you are to advertisers and the websites you visit. Like Truga said, VPNs just shift your outbound public IP address from wherever you are to their IP. You want privacy? Here's a pihole project you can run in GCP that includes VPN: https://github.com/rajannpatel/Pi-Hole-on-Google-Compute-Engine-Free-Tier-with-Full-Tunnel-and-Split-Tunnel-Wireguard-VPN-Configs Used to be an Ansible thingy for this but I can't find it.
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They've had data breaches in the past. Here's an article on one from 2019: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/04/17/microsoft-confirms-outlook-com-and-hotmail-accounts-were-breached/
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I've actually gone as far as giving my family piholes that block 99% of this stuff and my family computer support calls have gone down to nothing. They're not being targeted, it's just drive by bullshit that they're not smart enough to not click.
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They all use the same hash sets to find stuff
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