VPN hides your IP. HWID change rewrites your hardware identifiers. They're complementary tools that solve different problems — and using both gives the strongest privacy profile.
Order matters. First do the HWID change, then enable VPN. The other way around can leak: some VPN clients fingerprint hardware on connect and tie that data to your VPN account.
Caveat — VPN client adapters create their own MAC + Volume ID. Some anti-cheats spot "too many adapters" as a flag. We recommend using only one VPN at a time and disabling unused virtual interfaces.
Best combo: HWIDChanger + Mullvad or ProtonVPN (no logs) + DNS-over-HTTPS. This stack gives the level of anonymity that's genuinely hard to fingerprint.