It depends who you are trying to hide from. A VPN will hide your internet traffic from your ISP/phone company, but obviously not from the site you are visiting.
At best you might be one of may people connecting from the same (VPN) IP address, but they can still collect info from your browser/app etc to generate points to ID you if they want.
FYI - This article is from 2020.
I know they did some stuff semi-recently about the security of direct calls. So there is a high chance this is have changed since then.