All of the information that you saw from the captures in this section is also visible to my ISP and to any servers between me and the destination. They saw all my DNS queries, they saw my IP address, and in case of HTTP (unencrypted), they saw all my HTTP communications too4. Using this information anyone can identify and track me. And these are the kinds of problems that VPN is designed to solve.
Source: How Does VPN Work? | kean.blog