This seems like a normal cheap android phone with a bootloader-unlocked operating system and some pre-installed ad-block and rethinkDNS’ish Apps imstalled?
And no offence, but the advertising video itself is more scamy then the wedding-dress shop around the corner that is always closed and dusty, but still paying a horrendous amount of rent each month…
Then, only the vpn provider would see the very same traffic, the ISP would see without vpn.
The ISP would just see your connection to the vpn provider.
The sites themselve would just see the vpn ip.
So it’s not the question about whether anyone sees the traffic, but who.
Only Tor would hide this traffic in a sense.