Privacy · Plain-English answer
Yes. If you are signed in to a Google account, Google knows exactly who you are regardless of your VPN, and it tracks your activity across Search, YouTube, Chrome, and Android as normal. A VPN only hides your IP address and location from Google, not your identity or account activity.
Google's tracking is built on identity and behaviour, not IP addresses. Your account ties together searches, watch history, location history from your phone, and activity on millions of sites running Google analytics and adverts. Cookies and device identifiers keep working through any VPN, and signing in confirms who you are directly.
What the VPN does change is the IP signal. Google sees the VPN server's address, so location estimates based on IP shift to the server's city, and your home connection is no longer part of the picture.
If your goal is less Google in your life, the effective moves are account-side and browser-side. Sign out or use separate profiles, turn off Web and App Activity, clear or block third-party cookies, and consider a browser and search engine that do not feed the same profile.
A VPN complements those steps by removing the IP thread that would otherwise link your sessions. ROOT VPN keeps no activity logs, so using it does not simply move the tracking from Google to your VPN provider.
ROOT VPN is free to start with unlimited data, no card needed, and no activity logs.
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