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Because it is connected to your own ISP and it has the same location as you have (if you set it up at yout home). And sharing your own IP to internet.

Basically using self hosted VPN in same location is same as not using VPN as you are exposing same IP to the internet.

VPN doesn’t hide IP, it just routes your traffic to internet via VPN server (and exposes that IP to the internet).